From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 06:52:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 06:52:29 -0500 Received: from embolism.psychosis.com ([216.242.103.100]:18182 "EHLO embolism.psychosis.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 06:52:18 -0500 Message-ID: <3A755950.9C730B80@psychosis.com> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 06:51:44 -0500 From: Dave Cinege Reply-To: dcinege@psychosis.com Organization: www.psychosis.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.1p11-1 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel , Linus Torvalds Subject: [PATCH] Remove arbitrary md= boot device limit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org linux-2.4.1p11-1/drivers/md/md.c line 3643 -#define MAX_MD_BOOT_DEVS 8 +#define MAX_MD_BOOT_DEVS MAX_MD_DEVS ------------------------------------------------------- To: Dave Cinege On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Dave Cinege wrote: > -#define MAX_MD_BOOT_DEVS 8 > +#define MAX_MD_BOOT_DEVS MAX_MD_DEVS sure this is fine. Ingo ------------------------------------------------------- To: Ingo Molnar Devices above md8 will not be initialized when speced with md=. Error ("md: Minor device number too high.\n"); The limitation is imposed by #define MAX_MD_BOOT_DEVS 8 However it appears arbitray to me. Doesn't make much sence since you can create /dev/md100 and it may well be the only md device you have... Is there any reason the next 2.4.1 prepatch should not include this? -#define MAX_MD_BOOT_DEVS 8 +#define MAX_MD_BOOT_DEVS MAX_MD_DEVS (If not I assume you will be submitting this to Linus...) -- "Nobody will ever be safe until the last cop is dead." NH Rep. Tom Alciere - (My new Hero) - 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/