From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Ed L Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg K-H <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [7/12]: support configuration of AOE_PARTITIONS from Kconfig
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:57:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050329165705.GA31013@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wtrqtn2n.fsf@coraid.com>
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 11:48:48AM -0500, Ed L Cashin wrote:
> I don't know if it matters now that we have udev. When udev manages
> the device nodes it all just works,
But most peopel still don't use udev.
> If you're saying that it's bad in principal, then that's another
> story. If that's what you mean, then it's a Linux policy issue, and
> to follow convention I'd think that we'd need another major number.
> That would be like the partitionable md devices, etc.
Yes, it's a policy issue. We don't do this weird config option anywhere
else.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-29 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2005-03-17 23:46 ` [PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [1/12]: remove too-low cap on minor number Greg KH
2005-03-18 20:13 ` Ed L Cashin
2005-03-18 20:14 ` [PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [4/12]: handle distros that have a udev rules file instead of dir Ed L. Cashin
2005-03-24 14:59 ` [PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [1/12]: remove too-low cap on minor number ecashin
2005-03-24 15:09 ` [PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [2/12]: allow multiple aoe devices with same MAC addr ecashin
2005-03-24 15:13 ` [PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [3/12]: update driver version to 6 ecashin
2005-03-24 15:15 ` [PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [4/12]: handle distros that have a udev rules file instead of dir ecashin
2005-03-24 15:17 ` [PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [5/12]: don't try to free null bufpool ecashin
2005-03-24 15:58 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-03-24 17:04 ` ecashin
2005-03-24 17:17 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-03-25 14:37 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-03-29 12:31 ` Jens Axboe
2005-03-24 15:19 ` [PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [6/12]: Alexey Dobriyan sparse cleanup ecashin
2005-03-24 15:21 ` [PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [7/12]: support configuration of AOE_PARTITIONS from Kconfig ecashin
2005-03-28 17:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-03-29 16:06 ` Ed L Cashin
2005-03-29 16:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-03-29 16:48 ` Ed L Cashin
2005-03-29 16:57 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-04-07 18:28 ` Ed L Cashin
2005-04-07 18:49 ` Greg KH
2005-04-07 18:56 ` Ed L Cashin
2005-04-07 23:08 ` Greg KH
2005-04-08 13:54 ` Ed L Cashin
2005-03-24 15:23 ` [PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [8/12]: document env var for specifying number of partitions per dev ecashin
2005-03-24 15:25 ` [PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [9/12]: add note about the need for deadlock-free sk_buff allocation ecashin
2005-03-24 15:27 ` [PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [10/12]: Randy Dunlap: avoid warnings on sparc64 ecashin
2005-03-24 15:30 ` [PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [11/12]: add support for disk statistics ecashin
2005-03-24 15:32 ` [PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [12/12]: send outgoing packets in order ecashin
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