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Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 18:54:11 +0200
From: Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] sd_many done right (1/5)
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Hi Al,

On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 12:45:41PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Kurt Garloff wrote:
> > The patches are all available at
> > http://www.suse.de/~garloff/linux/scsi-many/
>=20
> As long as you realize that it won't go in 2.5 in that form...

The sd parts can and should be ported to 2.5, I think.
The /proc/scsi/scsi extensions and other stuff I wrote to support it,=20
won't be needed, as we have driverfs in 2.5.
And, of course, the device number management will be solved in a more
general way, but I do not yet see how.=20

Regards,
--=20
Kurt Garloff  <garloff@suse.de>                          Eindhoven, NL
GPG key: See mail header, key servers         Linux kernel development
SuSE Linux AG, Nuernberg, DE                            SCSI, Security

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