From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758078AbYGFOip (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jul 2008 10:38:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756856AbYGFOig (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jul 2008 10:38:36 -0400 Received: from qb-out-0506.google.com ([72.14.204.224]:61535 "EHLO qb-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756817AbYGFOif (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jul 2008 10:38:35 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=NEdUHU08fFTpaJGGIaH/QxhSgyQqNIx9XHteCxOOSynU89BDELPZKwrXUsvL2O1O66 W8aJzMjpjf1h42fyLpzyyp3EpGMgnnEqhks6HMavFRWb9kQegnkEnlSTUlekv9wAoH66 ovHZrZmmNJk1iq08Q84xfk2eocjVIjZFPtf5U= Message-ID: <4870D8C7.6080100@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:37:59 +0900 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20071114) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jeff@garzik.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, bharrosh@panasas.com, greg.freemyer@gmail.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com, liml@rtr.ca, jens.axboe@oracle.com, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, device@lanana.org Subject: Re: [PATCHSET 2.6.26-rc8] block: implement extended devt References: <1215073986-4709-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <1215073986-4709-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, all. > > This patchset implements extended devt for block devices. This is > mainly to work around sd limitations (16 minors per device) but can > easily be used to allow more partitions or more devices. I'm updating the patchset. Please standby a bit. Thanks. -- tejun