Messages in this thread |  | | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: Question: multiple major numbers - one driver | Date | Fri, 27 Oct 2000 14:37:24 -0600 (MDT) |
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Chris Parker writes: > I have a need for more than 256 minor numbers. I could add some > more major numbers, thus getting the number of majors * 256. > I would like to have only device driver loaded to handle the > multiple majors.
Look at the SCSI/IDE/COMPAQ Smart RAID/etc drivers that have multiple major numbers registered (per Documentation/devices.txt). Some of the storage drivers have been allocating blocks of 8 major numbers at a time.
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