Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 14:07:09 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Paul Traina <pst@juniper.net> Cc: core@FreeBSD.ORG, junichi@jp.freebsd.org, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wfd block major number reassignment from 24 to 1 Message-ID: <199802132207.OAA04720@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 13 Feb 1998 13:25:02 PST." <199802132125.NAA18320@base.juniper.net>
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> I intend to reassign the wfd block device to (currently unused) > major #1 before the release of 2.2.6. While I've fixed most of > the stupid code in the kernel that expects boot devices to be > sequential from major #0, I cannot fix the boot blocks without a > noticable increase in code size (I'd need to make devs a structure > with major/minor numbers). Erk. > If you have any objection, please speak now, otherwise I'll be > making this change ASAP. No, I think this should be OK. > Paul > > p.s. Just as a heads up, I've also rewritten most of the generic and driver > code to use the new bdevsw flags, so we can remove the hard-coded major > numbers in various parts of the kernel (barf). Hey, while you're on this, could you look at what is involved in actually using the slice number passed in from the bootblocks when it comes to finding the root filesystem? ie. calculate the rootdev using the slice minor rather than the compatability minor? That'd make Jordan Extremely Happy. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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