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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Subject: Re: lots and lots of disks again
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 15:52:03 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040210155203.A5238@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040210154751.GH4010@tpkurt.garloff.de>; from garloff@suse.de on Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 04:47:51PM +0100

On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 04:47:51PM +0100, Kurt Garloff wrote:
> 
> Right, Matthew provided the reverse mapping, despite the fact that
> we don't need them, as it's just done by pointer deref ...
> 
> We may need them later though, if we ever go for 64 partitions per disk.
> So I left them in. Probably we should comment them out, so the compiler
> does not see them for now. Or stick them in the docu.

Please don't add #if 0'ed code.  Just leave it out and whoever needs it
can readd it.  

> +#define SD_DISKS	32768	// anything between 256 and 262144

Even if C99 allows C++-style comments now please don't use the in the kernel

Else I'm okay with the patch although I'm not too happy with having the
huge array, but I think we can declare that a "who complains may fix it"
issue.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-10 15:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-04 10:45 lots and lots of disks again Andrew Morton
2004-02-10 11:04 ` Kurt Garloff
2004-02-10 11:26   ` Kurt Garloff
2004-02-10 13:39     ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-10 15:47       ` Kurt Garloff
2004-02-10 15:52         ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-02-10 16:08           ` Kurt Garloff
2004-02-10 20:10             ` Andries Brouwer
2004-02-10 20:11               ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-02-10 20:58               ` Kurt Garloff
2004-02-10 21:21                 ` viro
2004-02-10 21:34                   ` Kurt Garloff
2004-02-10 21:42                     ` viro
2004-02-10 22:28                       ` Kurt Garloff
2004-02-10 18:26         ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-11 14:56           ` Kurt Garloff
2004-02-11 21:28             ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-11 22:09               ` Kurt Garloff
2004-02-11 22:29                 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-11 22:53                   ` viro
2004-02-12 15:00                     ` Kurt Garloff
2004-02-12 15:20                       ` James Bottomley
2004-02-12 15:57                       ` viro
2004-02-12 16:18                         ` Kurt Garloff
2004-02-12 16:43                           ` James Bottomley
2004-02-16 12:40                             ` Kurt Garloff
2004-02-16 22:57                               ` Andries Brouwer
2004-02-17  0:56                                 ` James Bottomley
2004-02-17  7:57                                   ` Kurt Garloff
2004-02-17 15:08                                     ` James Bottomley
2004-02-17 15:28                                     ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-02-17 14:49                                   ` Andries Brouwer
2004-02-17 15:18                                     ` James Bottomley
2004-02-17 15:27                                       ` Kurt Garloff
2004-02-29 16:41                                         ` James Bottomley
2004-02-29 23:31                                           ` Kurt Garloff
2004-03-03 19:30                                           ` Mike Anderson
2004-03-03 19:55                                             ` Kurt Garloff
2004-02-17 15:50                                       ` Andries Brouwer
2004-02-17 17:57                                         ` James Bottomley
2004-02-17 18:44                                           ` Andries Brouwer
2004-02-13  0:05                       ` Kurt Garloff
2004-02-16 12:31                         ` Kurt Garloff

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