Messages in this thread |  | | From | Neil Brown <> | Date | Tue, 15 May 2001 06:55:01 +1000 (EST) | Subject | Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants |
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On Monday May 14, torvalds@transmeta.com wrote: > > End of discussion. > > Linus >
...and start of education please...
I want to create a new block device - it is a different interface to the software-raid code that allows the arrays to be partitioned using normal partition tables.
So I need a major number - to give to devfs_register_blkdev at least. You don't want me to have a hardcoded one (which is fine) so I need a dynamically allocated one - yes?
This means that we need some analogue to {get,put}_unnamed_dev that manages a range of dynamically allocated majors. Is there such a beast already, or does someone need to write it? What range(s) should be used for block devices?
Am I missing something obvious here?
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