Messages in this thread |  | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: possible SCSI device numbering solution | Date | 26 Jun 1996 08:20:52 GMT |
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Followup to: <199606252322.TAA28726@snowdon.ccs.neu.edu> By author: Albert Cahalan <albert@ccs.neu.edu> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Break up device numbers on nibble boundries for readability. > > controller:4 > bus:4 > device:8 > lun:8 > partition:4 > > Hmmm, that is only 28 bits. Did I miss something? If SCSI, IDE, > and all the weird stuff gets unified naming, then 36 bits are left > over! Even with 8-bit partition numbers, 32 bits is enough. >
Major number maybe?! [And no, we are *NOT* getting rid of the major number.]
-hpa
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