linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] xen-blkfront: properly name all devices

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1204101645000.15151@kaball-desktop>
Date:	Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:50:25 +0100
From:	Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com>
To:	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>
CC:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	xen-devel <xen-devel@...ts.xen.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen-blkfront: properly name all devices

On Thu, 5 Apr 2012, Jan Beulich wrote:
> - devices beyond xvdzz didn't get proper names assigned at all
> - extended devices with minors not representable within the kernel's
>   major/minor bit split spilled into foreign majors
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...e.com>

The patch is OK.

Would you be up for writing a couple of lines under Documentation to
clearly state what device names are going to be given by blkfront in
correspondence to vdev numbers?
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