Re: [PATCH] register_blkdev

[Andrew Morton]

Christoph Hellwig <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> If you actually looked at the block layer code instead of just talking
> along you'd see that the major/minor split has absolutely zero meaning
> for the actual driver interface in 2.5.  The only major numbers have
> any meanting to is pretty printing (/proc/devices and __bdevname).
> 

Christoph, it would help this discussion very much if you could tell everyone
how we should set about solving the many-disks problem.  In detail.

Thanks.