Messages in this thread | | | From | "Guillaume Boissiere" <> | Date | Thu, 17 Jan 2002 17:22:46 -0500 | Subject | Re: [STATUS 2.5] January 17, 2001 |
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So are you suggesting I add the following task to my list? o Finalize new device naming convention (Linus Torvalds)
-- Guillaume
On 17 Jan 2002 at 14:14, Tim Pepper wrote:
> I'm not sure if any of the block changes already include this or if > this will rekindle the flamewar on devfs, but something's going to need > to happen with device naming. > > At the very least the upcoming change to the major/minor allocation > will allow large numbers of block devices and fs/partitions/check.c's > disk_name() will break. I think a lot of the scsi code's ready to support > a large number of devices. It'd be kind of ugly to have it find them > and disk_name() give them colliding names or names with odd extended > characters. > > There's already code out there to allow the sd to find more than 128 > devices and I've seen it in use where there are enough luns to cause > disk_name() to call them interesting names. > > Tim > -- > ********************************************************* > * tpepper@vato dot org * Venimus, Vidimus, * > * http://www.vato.org/~tpepper * Dolavimus * > *********************************************************
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