From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] register_blkdev
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 12:00:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030308200016.GF26374@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030308195028.A31394@infradead.org>
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 07:50:28PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 11:37:22AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > That's a good start, but why not change that to a simple,
> > HOW_MANY_MINORS_I_WANT, which will work the same way now, but allow us
> > to change to a pure dynamic major/minor allocation scheme in the future
> > by only modifying the register_chr_device() code. Same thing for
> > register_blkdev().
>
> register_blkdev() _IS_ totally meaningless in 2.5. I said this about three
> times in this thread already, when will people actually take a look at
> the code they look at?
I've looked at it, and right now it keeps drivers from registering the
same major number, and provides a pretty string for the requested major,
when the kernel wants to print it out.
Yes, most of the old code and logic is now gone, but can you just remove
the call altogether now? If so, great :)
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-08 19:59 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 [this message]
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
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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