Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 14:15:57 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Paul Traina <pst@juniper.net>, core@FreeBSD.ORG, junichi@jp.freebsd.org, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wfd block major number reassignment from 24 to 1 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980213141548.18313J-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199802132207.OAA04720@dingo.cdrom.com>
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go for it.. On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > 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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