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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: cherry@osdl.org, rddunlap@osdl.org, hch@infradead.org,
	Joel.Becker@oracle.com, greg@kroah.com, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] register_blkdev
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 15:46:24 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030307154624.12105fa3.akpm@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030307233636.A19260@infradead.org>

Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> If you actually looked at the block layer code instead of just talking
> along you'd see that the major/minor split has absolutely zero meaning
> for the actual driver interface in 2.5.  The only major numbers have
> any meanting to is pretty printing (/proc/devices and __bdevname).
> 

Christoph, it would help this discussion very much if you could tell everyone
how we should set about solving the many-disks problem.  In detail.

Thanks.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-07 23:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-07 19:32 [PATCH] register_blkdev Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-07 19:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-07 20:30   ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-07 22:12     ` Greg KH
2003-03-07 22:33       ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-07 23:45         ` Greg KH
2003-03-08  1:14           ` Alan Cox
2003-03-08  0:50             ` Greg KH
2003-03-08  1:05               ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-08  1:03                 ` Greg KH
2003-03-08  1:13                 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-08 15:09                   ` Alan Cox
2003-03-08 15:53                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-09  2:02                     ` Chris Wedgwood
2003-03-10  4:46                     ` Oliver Xymoron
2003-03-08 15:11               ` Alan Cox
2003-03-08 19:37                 ` Greg KH
2003-03-08 19:50                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-08 20:00                     ` Greg KH
2003-03-08 20:23                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-07 22:55       ` Joel Becker
2003-03-07 22:57         ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-07 23:17           ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-03-07 23:38             ` John Cherry
2003-03-07 23:36               ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-07 23:46                 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-03-07 23:54                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-08  1:49                     ` Joel Becker
2003-03-08  1:58                       ` Greg KH
2003-03-08  2:15                         ` Joel Becker
2003-03-08  2:18                           ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-08  2:42                             ` Joel Becker
2003-03-08 19:31                           ` Greg KH
2003-03-08 21:39                             ` Joel Becker
2003-03-08 21:59                               ` Greg KH
2003-03-08  1:04           ` Alan Cox
2003-03-09  4:32         ` Horst von Brand
2003-03-09  5:11           ` Valdis.Kletnieks
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-03-08 20:59 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-08 21:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-08 20:26 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-08 20:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-08  1:49 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-08  0:57 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-08  0:53 ` Greg KH
     [not found]   ` <20030308073407.A24272@infradead.org>
2003-03-08 19:29     ` Greg KH
2003-03-08 19:43       ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-08 21:26         ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-08 21:55           ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-08 21:41         ` Joel Becker
2003-03-08 21:52           ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-08 22:16             ` Joel Becker
2003-03-08 22:21               ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-10 17:31                 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-08 23:37             ` Alan Cox
2003-03-08 22:36               ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-08 23:56                 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-09  5:08             ` Gerrit Huizenga
2003-03-17 19:21           ` Steven Dake
2003-03-07 19:50 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-07 19:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-07 18:49 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-07 19:06 ` Christoph Hellwig

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