From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261588AbUKIRSs (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2004 12:18:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261590AbUKIRSs (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2004 12:18:48 -0500 Received: from pop.gmx.de ([213.165.64.20]:39319 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261588AbUKIRSr (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2004 12:18:47 -0500 X-Authenticated: #21910825 Message-ID: <4190FBF2.5020604@gmx.net> Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 18:18:42 +0100 From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040114 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List CC: Kevin Corry Subject: dynamic block minor registration 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 Hi, in my quest for a unified /dev/disk I found some code in device-mapper which seems to handle dynamic block minor registration. Are there any plans to move that code out of device-mapper and make it available for all block device drivers? IIRC there was also a limitation that one block major could not be shared between different drivers, even if the minor ranges they wanted didn't overlap. Is this still the case? Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/