Re: Linux/Pro -- clusters

Alan Cox
2001-12-07T10:28:56Z

> > For those of us who want to run a standards based operating system can
> > you do the 32bit dev_t. Otherwise some slightly fundamental things don't
> > work. You know boring stuff like ls, find, df, and other standard unix
> > commands. Those export a dev_t cookie.
>
> I don't think this is what Linus was talking about. The current problem

Linus wasnt talking about what I was talking about. Problem the other way
around 8)

> For example please grep for the MINOR() macro in the scsi layer...
> Most of the places where it's used should be replaced by a simple
> driver instance enumerator. I did this once already, so this is for
> sure.

it become block_device->instance or ->minor

major/minors for old stuff still end up leaking into user space and
mattering there. I'm not sure the best option for that