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Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 23:12:16 +0100 (CET)
From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
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Subject: Re: 64-bit kdev_t - just for playing
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Hi,

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:

You must have overlooked some of my questions:

How are these disks registered and how will the dev_t number look like?
How will the user know about these numbers?
Who creates these device entries (user or daemon)?

> > How is backward compatibility done, so that I can still boot a 2.4 kernel?
> 
> Old device numbers remain valid, so all changes are completely
> transparent.

SCSI has multiple majors, disks 0-15 are at major 8, disks 16-31 are at 
65, ...., disks 112-127 are at major 71. Will this stay the same? Where 
are the disk 128-xxx?
Can I have now more than 15 partitions?

bye, Roman