Re: PCMCIA 3.0.5 and kernel 2.1.126 compile issues

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 31 Oct 1998 01:12:44 +0000 (GMT)


> #define SCSI_DISK0_MAJOR 8
>
> My question is "why the change" and will doing this foul something important
> lower in the kernel? (I don't think it will do anything nasty to my code as I
> do not have any SCSI devices on my laptop. yet.)

There are now 8 scsi major numbers allowing about 128 disks on a linux box
(people hit 16 limit a lot)

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