linux-kernel - Re: regarding major number of block extended devt

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Date:	Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:35:26 +0200
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
CC:	device@...ana.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: regarding major number of block extended devt

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Note that addition /partitions/ is somewhat unlikely to be useful, since
> existing code will have to search through random crap in sysfs to look
> for the partition directories anyway.

Currently it has to list /sys/block/DEV/DEV[-]N/.  With proper
classification, it can do /sys/block/*/partitions/*.  We'll need to keep
around symlinks at the root level.  It also plays well with how other
subsystems have been changing.

-- 
tejun
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