Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release

Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2003-04-11T21:48:57Z

--On 11 April 2003 15:59 -0400 Mike Dresser <mdresser_l@windsormachine.com>
wrote:

> now have 1 + 3 + 9 = 13 splitters, giving me 27 connections, out of 1.
> etc, etc. Same numbers I'd have doing it your way, yours would be 13
> levels deep instead.
>
> I think I just went for the massively parallel method of hooking
> these up and from there got massively lost.

Your 13 splitters have each added 2 connections to the 1, giving
1 + 13 x 2 = 27. There is no multiplicative effect.

Similarly to get to 4000 drives from 5, you need to add 3995
connections, i.e. 1998 splitters (giving one spare for the
floppy/cdrom).

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Alex Bligh