Messages in this thread | | | From | (Teunis Peters) | Subject | Re: SCSI disk naming | Date | 10 Jul 1997 22:47:17 +0200 |
| |
Okay - apologies for continuing this thing!
May libc-6 be stablized and public quickly! (and may linux share space with glibc-2.0.* properly!) [it doesn't as of 2.1.43 - it does with 2.0.30.. AFAIK <sigh>]
On 10 Jul 1997, Frohwalt Egerer wrote: > psj@cgmlarson.com (Patrick St. Jean) writes: > > [ SCSI 'first come first served' numbering ] > > - The kernel dev_t currently is too small to allow for this scheme. > - With libc 5 dev_t can't be enlarged without breaking _all_ binaries. > - libc6/glibc2 allows for enlarging the kernel dev_t without breaking > binaries. > > => You'll probably see a larger dev_t and a saner SCSI numbering > scheme, when libc6 is in the mainstream.
| |