Re: [PATCH] sd_many done right (1/5)

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 06:54:11PM +0200, Kurt Garloff wrote:
> Hi Al,
> 
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 12:45:41PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Kurt Garloff wrote:
> > > The patches are all available at
> > > http://www.suse.de/~garloff/linux/scsi-many/
> > 
> > As long as you realize that it won't go in 2.5 in that form...
> 
> The sd parts can and should be ported to 2.5, I think.
> The /proc/scsi/scsi extensions and other stuff I wrote to support it, 
> won't be needed, as we have driverfs in 2.5.
> And, of course, the device number management will be solved in a more
> general way, but I do not yet see how. 

Why that's quite simple (with apologies to South Park) :
	1) finish the driver model code and banish devfs to a corner of
	the kernel where it will not do any harm.
	2) {silence}
	3) Purely dynamic major and minors now work.

:)

It will happen, eventually.  Most of us are busy laying the groundwork
right now...

thanks,

greg k-h