From: Jeff D. <jd...@ka...> - 2002-12-19 03:15:43
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Jam...@ho... said: > Well in order to get to ubd-many the array needed to go away and be > referenced by a pointer while that may work as a clean up, before > going to ubd_many it is not needed for anything else I know of. That's the beauty of it. The change is (or should be) a verifiable functional no-op, which it isn't if it's mixed in with the ubd-many changes. So, you strip the actual functional changes down to their bare minumum, where they become a lot easier to verify. > I still have not gotten any comments about people still using the fake > major number or the fake ide stuff. Yeah, it's occasionally handy when making installers run. It's of dubious usefulness, but I'm not confortable throwing it out just yet. > 1) fix for Oleg Droken sysfs problems (already sent as a seperate > patch) > 2) convert to dev-> everywhere repalceing ubd_dev[] > 3) detaching fake devices from the real devices so they can be allocated > seperately > 4) dropping all of fake_major/fake_hd (not in current patch) > 5) last bit of ubd-many... the loops to lookup the device and > the new major number allocation. Seems reasonable, except I don't like 4 right now. Jeff |