Folks, current /proc/devices is sorted by major number. I'm going
to make the block part ordered by driver registration time. I.e. instead
of
2 fd
3 ide0
8 sd
9 md
22 ide1
65 sd
66 sd
get
2 fd
3 ide
22 ide
9 md
8 sd
65 sd
66 sd
(I _really_ don't see the point in separate names for IDE interfaces here,
especially since SCSI disks are uniformly sd on all majors, but that's
another story - I can restore them if needed). Murfy being what he is,
some stuff will assume that the thing is sorted and break on new layout. I
suspect that nothing sane will, though - the thing is sparse anyway, so...
This change is needed if we want to avoid (a) races and (b) major suckage
with exporting spinlocks, etc. If somebody wants to protest - please, do
it _now_.
Cheers,
Al
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