Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: disk head scheduling | Date | Tue, 23 Mar 1999 09:01:01 +0100 (MET) | From | (Rogier Wolff) |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Rogier Wolff wrote: > > > > > > This is what we do for block sizes, and it's a complete horror to maintain > > > and debug. Even worse: it forces us to have 8-bit minor and major numbers > > > forever. > > > > Nah! It is the device drivers responsibility to allocate enough > > space. So if a new SCSI disk driver notices 20 disks, and therefore > > wants 320 minors, it should allocate the array to be 320 entries. > > Umm.. > > What if we have sparse minor numbers?
Let me start by saying I agree completely. You convinced me in one go.
Ehhmm. You're paraphrasing the paragraph that I had written below the one you quoted.
Roger.
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