Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Mar 2003 23:36:36 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] register_blkdev |
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On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 03:38:18PM -0800, John Cherry wrote: > Sure. You could grab unassigned majors...if that is what you want to > do. There are a number of ways to "get around" the lack of minor > numbers. None of them follow conventional thinking with regards to > major/minor usage.
If you actually looked at the block layer code instead of just talking along you'd see that the major/minor split has absolutely zero meaning for the actual driver interface in 2.5. The only major numbers have any meanting to is pretty printing (/proc/devices and __bdevname).
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