Re: [BK PATCHES] add ata scsi driver

Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-28T09:22:39Z

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 12:16:24PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Well, OK, that's not an in-kernel issue.
>
> It's definitely an in-kernel issue, because the mapping is in-kernel now:
>
> <major,minor> -> queue

The mapping in the kernel is gendisk -> queue. On the syscall
boundary we have an addition dev_t -> gendisk mapping. The
scsi midlayer e.g. doesn't care about dev_t or even major / minor
at all.