Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 22 Jan 2000 23:26:06 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | [RFC] change in /proc/devices |
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Folks, current /proc/devices is sorted by major number. I'm going to make the block part ordered by driver registration time. I.e. instead of 2 fd 3 ide0 8 sd 9 md 22 ide1 65 sd 66 sd
get
2 fd 3 ide 22 ide 9 md 8 sd 65 sd 66 sd
(I _really_ don't see the point in separate names for IDE interfaces here, especially since SCSI disks are uniformly sd on all majors, but that's another story - I can restore them if needed). Murfy being what he is, some stuff will assume that the thing is sorted and break on new layout. I suspect that nothing sane will, though - the thing is sparse anyway, so...
This change is needed if we want to avoid (a) races and (b) major suckage with exporting spinlocks, etc. If somebody wants to protest - please, do it _now_. Cheers, Al
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