Messages in this thread |  | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: possible SCSI device numbering solution | Date | 27 Jun 1996 03:39:50 GMT |
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Followup to: <199606261829.OAA01794@snowdon.ccs.neu.edu> By author: Albert Cahalan <albert@ccs.neu.edu> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > The major number is useful for character devices, which can be > split 12:20. For block devices, a block device is just a block > device. If you just need a major number to fill some software > "need", then just make it 0 for all block devices. >
Huh? The major number is the pointer to the driver; this has to be encoded one way or the other, and it might as well be done uniformly and efficiently. I'd go for 12:20 if it is deemed enough (which I am not really sure about), but dropping the major is a ludicrous idea.
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