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Re: Devices limit problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Youngdale)
Tue Mar 10 14:03:14 1998
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 22:23:58 -0500 (EST)
From: Eric Youngdale <eric@andante.jic.com>
To: Jakub Jelinek <jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz>
cc: herve@doremilabs.com, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199803090820.JAA13573@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz>
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> Yes, it will be difficult and a lot of work. But without something like
> that, we won't get rid of hardcoded maximum minors and won't be able to use
> sparse minors. I think all stuff like read-ahead, blocksize, ... should go
> into some block_kdev_t structure which will kdev_t point to.
I was thinking that one way to generalize this is to change the
arrays to an array of function pointers. The initial implementations
would just be the trivial mapping into the array, but the idea is that
the underlying data structures could trivially be changed to something
more suitable.
-Eric
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