Re: [patch for playing] Patch to support 4000 disks and maintain backward compatibility

    From: Badari Pulavarty <[e-mail]>

    >     I am more worried about names slipping. I atleast hope
    >     to see device names not changing by just doing
    >     rmmod/insmod.
    >
    > But you see, the present sd_index_bits[] gives no such
    > guarantee. In sd_detach a bit is cleared, in sd_attach
    > the first free bit is given out. There is no memory.

    But the disks are probed in the same manner as last time
    (if the disks/controllers are not moved, crashed etc..).
    So we will end up getting same names.

Oh, but if next_index is 0 in the module (or reset by the
init_module code), then also with index = next_index++
things will be the same after rmmod/insmod.

Andries