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* [patch 0/5] st: Clean up and raise max device limit (v4)
@ 2012-08-18 19:20 Jeff Mahoney
  2012-08-18 19:20 ` [patch 1/5] [PATCH 1/5] st: Use static class attributes Jeff Mahoney
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From: Jeff Mahoney @ 2012-08-18 19:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linux SCSI; +Cc: James Bottomley, Kai Makisara, Lee Duncan, Rob Evers

This patchset cleans up the SCSI tape device handling code and leverages it
to lift the limitation of the number of tape drives from the previous
arbitrary limit of 128 to the maximum supported by a device node that
creates 8 character devices per physical device. Since minors are 20 bits,
that means 2^17 tape drives can be supported.

Changed in this version: A previous revision introduced a regression where
tape drives would not be shown as tape devices in lsscsi. This was due to
the missing "tape" symlink in sysfs. That issue has been addressed and
lsscsi works properly again. Also, it passes checkpatch with no errors.

Please apply.


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2012-08-18 19:20 [patch 0/5] st: Clean up and raise max device limit (v4) Jeff Mahoney
2012-08-18 19:20 ` [patch 1/5] [PATCH 1/5] st: Use static class attributes Jeff Mahoney
2012-08-18 19:20 ` [patch 2/5] [PATCH 2/5] st: clean up dev cleanup in st_probe Jeff Mahoney
2012-08-18 19:20 ` [patch 3/5] [PATCH 3/5] st: get rid of scsi_tapes array Jeff Mahoney
2012-08-18 19:20 ` [patch 4/5] [PATCH 4/5] st: clean up device file creation and removal Jeff Mahoney
2012-08-18 19:20 ` [patch 5/5] [PATCH 5/5] st: raise device limit Jeff Mahoney
2012-08-20 19:55 ` [patch 0/5] st: Clean up and raise max device limit (v4) Kai Makisara

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