Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 28 May 2003 10:35:42 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [BK PATCHES] add ata scsi driver |
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On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 12:16:24PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Well, OK, that's not an in-kernel issue. > > It's definitely an in-kernel issue, because the mapping is in-kernel now: > > <major,minor> -> queue
The mapping in the kernel is gendisk -> queue. On the syscall boundary we have an addition dev_t -> gendisk mapping. The scsi midlayer e.g. doesn't care about dev_t or even major / minor at all.
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