[1132] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: adding scsi devices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Fri Dec 20 01:11:35 1996
From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
To: tytso@mit.edu (Theodore Y. Ts'o)
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 18:22:04 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: andy@realbig.com, leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu,
linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <9612181857.AA25340@dcl.MIT.EDU> from "Theodore Y. Ts'o" at Dec 18, 96 01:57:52 pm
> The real problem is that there isn't enough space in the 8-bit minor
> device number space to address the controller, bus, ID, and LUN bits.
> When we move to using a 32-bit minor device number, it will make a
> scheme like this much easier to do under Linux.
Anyone have any opinions when we should stop talking about >256fds, and
32bit device numbers and bite the bullet and add them ?
Alan
