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SubjectRe: [patch for playing] Patch to support 4000 disks and maintain backward compatibility
Hi,

On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Badari Pulavarty wrote:

> This patch addresses the backward compatibility with device nodes
> issue. All the new disks will be addressed by only last major.

This nicely demonstrates, that it's not exactly becoming nicer, when one
has to deal with compatibility. This is one more reason to at least
consider a more general solution, from which all drivers can benefit from.

bye, Roman

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