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[PATCH] sd_many done right (3/5): msg#00145

Subject: [PATCH] sd_many done right (3/5)
Hi Marcelo,

here comes patch 3/5 from a series of patches to support more than 128 (and
optionally more than 256) SCSI disks with Linux 2.4 by changing the sd driver
to dynamically allocate memory and register block majors as disks get
attached.

The patches are all available at
http://www.suse.de/~garloff/linux/scsi-many/

Patch 3 does use the infrastructure of patch 1 to allow specifying the
root filesystem as a kernel parameter using devfs syntax (e.g.
root=/dev/scsi/c2b0t9u0p5), but also working on non-devfs systems.
Together with the (already existing) scsihosts= parameter, this can 
be quite useful if you have many SCSI disks with changing configurations.

This patch is against 2.4.19rc1. It depends on 1/3.

Regards,
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Kurt Garloff  <garloff@xxxxxxx>                          Eindhoven, NL
GPG key: See mail header, key servers         Linux kernel development
SuSE Linux AG, Nuernberg, DE                            SCSI, Security

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