[1146] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: adding scsi devices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tyson@rwii.com)
Sat Dec 21 00:39:46 1996
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 00:22:03 -0500 (EST)
From: tyson@rwii.com
To: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
cc: tytso@mit.edu, andy@realbig.com, leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com,
linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0van6a-0005FbC@lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk>
On 20 Dec, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > 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
I vote for now. ;-)
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Tyson D Sawyer <tyson@rwii.com>
Senior Systems Engineer
Real World Interface, Inc.
