On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 03:46:23PM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote: > What is the issue here? This is no different than what is done in other > Virtualization platforms. For instance, the Xen blkfront driver is no > different - if you specify the block device to be presented to the guest > as an ide device, it will register for the appropriate ide major number. No, it won't - at least not in mainline just because it's so buggy. If distros keep that crap around I can only recommed you to not use them. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel