On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 00:43, mike.miller@hp.com wrote:
> This patch was built & tested using 2.4.22 with the 2.4.23-pre2 prepatch applied. It is intended for inclusion in the 2.4.23 kernel.
> This patch adds support for more than 8 controllers. It does this by passing 0 as a major number and allows the OS to assign a dynamically allocated major number when there are more than 8 cciss controllers in a system.
> It's primary purpose is to help support the SA6400 and SA6400 EM. When these 2 cards are used they are 2 separate controllers in a single PCI/PCI-X slot.

how about just getting more official majors instead ?