From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: John Cherry <cherry@osdl.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Joel.Becker@oracle.com, greg@kroah.com, akpm@digeo.com,
Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] register_blkdev
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 23:36:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030307233636.A19260@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1047080297.10926.180.camel@cherrytest.pdx.osdl.net>; from cherry@osdl.org on Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 03:38:18PM -0800
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 03:38:18PM -0800, John Cherry wrote:
> Sure. You could grab unassigned majors...if that is what you want to
> do. There are a number of ways to "get around" the lack of minor
> numbers. None of them follow conventional thinking with regards to
> major/minor usage.
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).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-07 23:26 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 [this message]
2003-03-07 23:46 ` Andrew Morton
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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