Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Apr 2005 11:49:18 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [7/12]: support configuration of AOE_PARTITIONS from Kconfig |
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On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 02:28:59PM -0400, Ed L Cashin wrote: > Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> writes: > > > On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 11:48:48AM -0500, Ed L Cashin wrote: > >> I don't know if it matters now that we have udev. When udev manages > >> the device nodes it all just works, > > > > But most peopel still don't use udev. > > > >> If you're saying that it's bad in principal, then that's another > >> story. If that's what you mean, then it's a Linux policy issue, and > >> to follow convention I'd think that we'd need another major number. > >> That would be like the partitionable md devices, etc. > > > > Yes, it's a policy issue. We don't do this weird config option anywhere > > else. > > A couple support calls later, I think I've come around to your point > of view. This patch isn't needed and may cause confusion. > > Few aoe users really use partitions on their aoe disks, so I can make > the aoe driver have one minor number per disk as the default to avoid > the most common problems people encounter. > > Then, aoe users who really need to partition their network disks can > use the partitionable md driver to "wrap" the aoe disk, like this: > > mdadm -B -l linear --force -n 1 --auto=mdp /dev/md_p0 /dev/etherd/e7.0 > fdisk /dev/md_p0
So, which one of the aoe patches listed at: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/patches/driver/ do you want me to drop? This one: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/patches/driver/aoe-AOE_PARTITIONS.patch ? Or some other one too?
thanks,
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