Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Mar 2003 15:46:24 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] register_blkdev |
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Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote: > > If you actually looked at the block layer code instead of just talking > along you'd see that the major/minor split has absolutely zero meaning > for the actual driver interface in 2.5. The only major numbers have > any meanting to is pretty printing (/proc/devices and __bdevname). >
Christoph, it would help this discussion very much if you could tell everyone how we should set about solving the many-disks problem. In detail.
Thanks.
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