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SubjectRe: [PATCH] register_blkdev
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> If you actually looked at the block layer code instead of just talking
> along you'd see that the major/minor split has absolutely zero meaning
> for the actual driver interface in 2.5. The only major numbers have
> any meanting to is pretty printing (/proc/devices and __bdevname).
>

Christoph, it would help this discussion very much if you could tell everyone
how we should set about solving the many-disks problem. In detail.

Thanks.

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