Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264618AbTE1JWj (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2003 05:22:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264624AbTE1JWj (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2003 05:22:39 -0400 Received: from phoenix.mvhi.com ([195.224.96.167]:53520 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264618AbTE1JWi (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2003 05:22:38 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 10:35:42 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Jeff Garzik Cc: James Bottomley , Linus Torvalds , Jens Axboe , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: [BK PATCHES] add ata scsi driver Message-ID: <20030528103542.A27059@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Jeff Garzik , James Bottomley , Linus Torvalds , Jens Axboe , Linux Kernel References: <1054047595.1975.64.camel@mulgrave> <20030527152113.GA21744@gtf.org> <1054049931.1975.129.camel@mulgrave> <20030527155053.GB21744@gtf.org> <1054051233.1975.139.camel@mulgrave> <20030527161624.GC21744@gtf.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20030527161624.GC21744@gtf.org>; from jgarzik@pobox.com on Tue, May 27, 2003 at 12:16:24PM -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 657 Lines: 17 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: > > -> 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. - 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/