Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 17:01:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 17:01:08 -0500 Received: from smtpzilla1.xs4all.nl ([194.109.127.137]:50184 "EHLO smtpzilla1.xs4all.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 17:01:08 -0500 Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 23:12:16 +0100 (CET) From: Roman Zippel X-X-Sender: roman@serv To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 64-bit kdev_t - just for playing In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 900 Lines: 27 Hi, On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote: You must have overlooked some of my questions: How are these disks registered and how will the dev_t number look like? How will the user know about these numbers? Who creates these device entries (user or daemon)? > > How is backward compatibility done, so that I can still boot a 2.4 kernel? > > Old device numbers remain valid, so all changes are completely > transparent. SCSI has multiple majors, disks 0-15 are at major 8, disks 16-31 are at 65, ...., disks 112-127 are at major 71. Will this stay the same? Where are the disk 128-xxx? Can I have now more than 15 partitions? bye, Roman - 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/