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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Support for official xvd major number
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| Subject: | Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Support for official xvd major number |
| From: | Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Thu, 14 Jul 2005 17:35:02 -0400 |
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On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 17:15 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > LANANA has officially assigned the block major of 202 for xvd devices > (http://www.lanana.org/docs/device-list/devices-2.6+.txt). Take > advantage of knowing this so people don't have to do the mknod on their > system. Also, fix up the scsi regex to get sda correct without having > to do hacks like sda0. Also, on a side note that is really unrelated to the patch, is there really a good reason why these hoops are still gone through instead of having the kernel allocate the next disk instead of the hard-coding with things somewhat out of order and stealing the major/minors of other subsystems? Jeremy _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel |
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