From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>,
"Alan D. Brunelle" <Alan.Brunelle@hp.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] Re: Problem w/ CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:23:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48BD3031.3090905@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080902122006.GN15123@agk.fab.redhat.com>
Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 01:06:24PM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
>> Well, dev_t is 32bits and MINORBITS is 20. So, major 12 bits, minor 20
>> bits, so 4 characters for major, 7 characters for minor.
>
> Upstream libdevmapper CVS patched - will appear in next release (1.02.28).
Alright, thanks. What about the /proc/devices one? Would adding an
entry help? I'm kind of lost /proc/devices. It's now mostly
non-functional legacy stuff we've been carrying around. Is it
deprecated or do we intend to keep it around forever?
Ooh.. which also reminds me that I forgot to reserve the major number w/
lanana. Will do that.
Thanks.
--
tejun
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-02 12:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-02 10:36 Problem w/ CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT Alan D. Brunelle
2008-09-02 10:47 ` Tejun Heo
2008-09-02 10:55 ` Alan D. Brunelle
2008-09-02 10:57 ` Jens Axboe
2008-09-02 11:06 ` Tejun Heo
2008-09-02 12:20 ` [dm-devel] " Alasdair G Kergon
2008-09-02 12:23 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
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