From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 19:43:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 19:43:02 -0500 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:64008 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 19:42:53 -0500 Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 01:42:21 +0100 From: Jens Axboe To: Andre Hedrick Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Linus Torvalds , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Minors remaining in Major 10 ?? Message-ID: <20010121014221.A5792@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <3A6A1B40.459A1B7@transmeta.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from andre@linux-ide.org on Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 03:40:19PM -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jan 20 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote: > The idea is to have a char not a block because there is no buffered access > to the dummy driver. It is very painful to have to open one block device > and pass parameters to select the one you really want to service in a > passive mode. Like the raw devices we have already? -- * Jens Axboe * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/