Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux/Pro -- clusters | Date | Fri, 7 Dec 2001 10:37:15 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > For those of us who want to run a standards based operating system can > > you do the 32bit dev_t. Otherwise some slightly fundamental things don't > > work. You know boring stuff like ls, find, df, and other standard unix > > commands. Those export a dev_t cookie. > > I don't think this is what Linus was talking about. The current problem
Linus wasnt talking about what I was talking about. Problem the other way around 8)
> For example please grep for the MINOR() macro in the scsi layer... > Most of the places where it's used should be replaced by a simple > driver instance enumerator. I did this once already, so this is for > sure.
it become block_device->instance or ->minor
major/minors for old stuff still end up leaking into user space and mattering there. I'm not sure the best option for that - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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