On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 09:17:52PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > The limitation of 16 partitions on a SCSI disk (err, make that 15, since > > the whole-disk device takes up a minor number, too) is determined by the > > device number allocation. > > [opens the hood, like I should have before making guesses] > > How would devfs make this go away? 2.4.4 still has the hardcoded DEVICE_NR > macro used all over sd.c ...
It would make it possible to fix without breaking user-space. I didn't know the kernel was so heavily dependent on it. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
