[9283] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: strange sd entries /proc/devices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kurt Garloff)
Tue Aug 1 06:45:07 2000
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 12:42:20 +0200
From: Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
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On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 12:10:41PM +0200, Dominik Kubla wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 11:28:59PM -0400, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> ...
> > Seems a bit strange getting sd 3 times (rather than=20
> > once (or 8 times to be pedantic)). My system is=20
> > running the dreaded devfs. Do other people see =20
> > similar things?
> >=20
> > BTW There is only one SCSI disk on my system.
>=20
> "Read the source, Luke!" In order to support lots of scsi devices
> (not uncommon on enterprise servers) we need mor minor device numbers.
> under the current major/minor scheme we need more majors for this.
I think Doug knows that very well.
Still he thinks that it would be more aesthetical to hide the additional
entries from /proc/devices.
I disagree. I agree that the %d things are ugly and should be removed,
though.
And: It's a minor issue.
Regards,
--=20
Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de> Eindhoven, NL
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