On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 12:10:41PM +0200, Dominik Kubla wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 11:28:59PM -0400, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> ...
> > Seems a bit strange getting sd 3 times (rather than
> > once (or 8 times to be pedantic)). My system is
> > running the dreaded devfs. Do other people see
> > similar things?
> >
> > BTW There is only one SCSI disk on my system.
>
> "Read the source, Luke!" In order to support lots of scsi devices
> (not uncommon on enterprise servers) we need mor minor device numbers.
> under the current major/minor scheme we need more majors for this.
I think Doug knows that very well.
Still he thinks that it would be more aesthetical to hide the additional
entries from /proc/devices.
I disagree. I agree that the %d things are ugly and should be removed,
though.
And: It's a minor issue.
Regards,
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