From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 18:44:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 18:44:28 -0500 Received: from carisma.slowglass.com ([195.224.96.167]:19207 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 18:44:25 -0500 Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 23:54:54 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Andrew Morton Cc: Christoph Hellwig , cherry@osdl.org, rddunlap@osdl.org, Joel.Becker@oracle.com, greg@kroah.com, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] register_blkdev Message-ID: <20030307235454.A19662@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , cherry@osdl.org, rddunlap@osdl.org, Joel.Becker@oracle.com, greg@kroah.com, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com References: <20030307193644.A14196@infradead.org> <20030307123029.2bc91426.akpm@digeo.com> <20030307221217.GB21315@kroah.com> <20030307225517.GF2835@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> <20030307225710.A18005@infradead.org> <20030307151744.73738fdd.rddunlap@osdl.org> <1047080297.10926.180.camel@cherrytest.pdx.osdl.net> <20030307233636.A19260@infradead.org> <20030307154624.12105fa3.akpm@digeo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20030307154624.12105fa3.akpm@digeo.com>; from akpm@digeo.com on Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 03:46:24PM -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 03:46:24PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Christoph, it would help this discussion very much if you could tell everyone > how we should set about solving the many-disks problem. In detail. Just use blk_register_region() to claim the region you want, you don't have to care for any major/minor binary. There is not much of the dev_t space used for block devices at all so there's no problem. Actually coordinating those allocations with LANANA might help to not step other people on their feet, but your return value will tell that anyway.