Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264979AbTIDNOJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2003 09:14:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264998AbTIDNOJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2003 09:14:09 -0400 Received: from ztxmail03.ztx.compaq.com ([161.114.1.207]:11793 "EHLO ztxmail03.ztx.compaq.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264979AbTIDNOG convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2003 09:14:06 -0400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6375.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Subject: RE: cciss update for 2.4.23-pre2 Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 08:14:04 -0500 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: cciss update for 2.4.23-pre2 Thread-Index: AcNytX+fGvvlIahCTQWfIL9if2eMCAAMIcog From: "Miller, Mike (OS Dev)" To: Cc: , , X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Sep 2003 13:14:04.0804 (UTC) FILETIME=[6A4DE440:01C372E6] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1212 Lines: 24 We didn't want to permanently allocate more majors than we already have. mikem -----Original Message----- From: Arjan van de Ven [mailto:arjanv@redhat.com] Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 2:23 AM To: Miller, Mike (OS Dev) Cc: axboe@suse.de; marcelo@conectiva.com.br; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: cciss update for 2.4.23-pre2 On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 00:43, mike.miller@hp.com wrote: > This patch was built & tested using 2.4.22 with the 2.4.23-pre2 prepatch applied. It is intended for inclusion in the 2.4.23 kernel. > This patch adds support for more than 8 controllers. It does this by passing 0 as a major number and allows the OS to assign a dynamically allocated major number when there are more than 8 cciss controllers in a system. > It's primary purpose is to help support the SA6400 and SA6400 EM. When these 2 cards are used they are 2 separate controllers in a single PCI/PCI-X slot. how about just getting more official majors instead ? - 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/