Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 22 Jun 1996 21:50:26 +0200 | From | Andries.Brouwer@cwi ... | Subject | Re: SCSI device numbering (was: Re: Ideas for v2.1 |
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Andrew E. Mileski:
: I've looked over the code, and went through the kdev_t.h file. : I don't like the idea of using different internal/external majors/minors. : Is it necessary?
In the long run there is no reason to have internal majors/minors. Internally there is a struct kdev_t that gives the name, blocksize, size, read-ahead etc. etc. of a device. At present the kernel still uses major or minor as an index in some tables, but with larger dev_t that is impossible, and there is no longer any reason for the kernel to use major/minor.
Andries
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