[447] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Generic Scsi Driver Bug Report and comments.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Drew Eckhardt)
Tue Aug 1 13:59:01 1995
To: heiko@colossus.escape.de (Heiko Eissfeldt)
cc: mike@ringo.reno.nv.us (Michael Morrison), linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 31 Jul 1995 00:37:08 +0200."
<m0scgyq-000EyuC@colossus>
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 03:01:55 -0600
From: Drew Eckhardt <drew@poohsticks.org>
In message <m0scgyq-000EyuC@colossus>, heiko@colossus.escape.de writes:
>
>To achieve this static mapping, you will have to reserve a device
>structure for every potential SCSI device. 8 luns for 8 IDs for 4
>controllers will fill the minor device space. To save memory one
>could allocate a device from a pool of say ten generic devices.
To save memory, one could kmalloc() the necessary structures when
some one actually attempted to open() one of the SCSI devices...
