Re: Submissions for 2.4.19-pre [sdmany (Richard Gooch)] [Discuss :) ]

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 26 Feb 2002 02:40:02 +0000 (GMT)

> +CONFIG_SD_MANY
> + This allows you to support a very large number of SCSI discs
> + (approximately 2080). You will also need to set CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y
> + later. This option may consume all unassigned block majors

As discussed before - this is a bad idea. Please don't regurgitate random
incorrect patches - it doesnt help. For 2.4 there is no clean way to do
this for 2.5 driverfs and a 32bit dev_t gets you there for free and done
right
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