Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 17:43:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 17:43:04 -0500 Received: from [81.2.110.254] ([81.2.110.254]:60152 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 17:43:03 -0500 Subject: Re: 64-bit kdev_t - just for playing From: Alan Cox To: Roman Zippel Cc: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References:

Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1048805732.3953.1.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.1 (1.2.1-4) Date: 27 Mar 2003 22:55:33 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1005 Lines: 27 On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 22:12, Roman Zippel wrote: > How are these disks registered and how will the dev_t number look like? Al Viro's work so far makes those issues you can defer nicely. > How will the user know about these numbers? Devices.txt or dynamic assignment > Who creates these device entries (user or daemon)? Who cares 8) Thats just the devfs argument all over again 8) > 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? It becomes possible, more importantly we can begin to support partitioned CD-ROM both for multisession and for real partition tables on CD (eg Macintrash) - 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/