Re: adding scsi devices

tyson@rwii.com
Sat, 21 Dec 1996 00:22:03 -0500 (EST)

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On 20 Dec, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > The real problem is that there isn't enough space in the 8-bit minor
> > device number space to address the controller, bus, ID, and LUN bits.
> > When we move to using a 32-bit minor device number, it will make a
> > scheme like this much easier to do under Linux.
>
> Anyone have any opinions when we should stop talking about >256fds, and
> 32bit device numbers and bite the bullet and add them ?
>
> Alan

I vote for now. ;-)

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Tyson D Sawyer  <tyson@rwii.com>
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