From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: many-disk support Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 11:06:04 +0000 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20031229110603.A27408@infradead.org> References: <20031229022549.50bae6d7.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([213.86.99.234]:25356 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263002AbTL2LGF (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Dec 2003 06:06:05 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031229022549.50bae6d7.akpm@osdl.org>; from akpm@osdl.org on Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 02:25:49AM -0800 List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Badari Pulavarty , "viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk" On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 02:25:49AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Guys, I've had this patch for ages. Badari seemed to say that it wasn't > the "right" way to do it. > > Can we get this nailed down please? - I think the bitmap overhead was killing us on big x86 machines, right? so that might need some swork. - a config option definitly is the wrong way to go. - I don't think assigning more numbers to the last major is a bad idea, better assign them to the first one, maybe with a hole for what we're using the other majors currently for, so when udev gets more mature we can kill the additional majors.