From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264249AbTDJX43 (for ); Thu, 10 Apr 2003 19:56:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264259AbTDJX43 (for ); Thu, 10 Apr 2003 19:56:29 -0400 Received: from smtpzilla1.xs4all.nl ([194.109.127.137]:27400 "EHLO smtpzilla1.xs4all.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264249AbTDJX41 (for ); Thu, 10 Apr 2003 19:56:27 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 02:08:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Roman Zippel X-X-Sender: roman@serv To: Badari Pulavarty cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Subject: Re: [patch for playing] Patch to support 4000 disks and maintain backward compatibility In-Reply-To: <200304101339.49895.pbadari@us.ibm.com> Message-ID: References: <200304101339.49895.pbadari@us.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > This patch addresses the backward compatibility with device nodes > issue. All the new disks will be addressed by only last major. This nicely demonstrates, that it's not exactly becoming nicer, when one has to deal with compatibility. This is one more reason to at least consider a more general solution, from which all drivers can benefit from. bye, Roman