Re: [RFT] #2 Support for ~2144 SCSI discs

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 2 Aug 2001 16:36:42 +0100 (BST)


> So, yes, you can already patch other subsystems to dynamically assign
> major numbers in 2.4.7. I'd like to see people do that. My patch for
> sd.c can also serve as a demonstration on how to use the new API.

Its a bit of an ugly hack but I guess its the best anyone can put together
for a 2.4 kernel tree. Going to a 32bit dev_t is going to make life so much
simpler do all of this without ugly hacks

Alan
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