On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 08:26:06AM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 05:53:52PM +0800, Ren Mingxin wrote: > > The current virtblk's naming algorithm only supports 263 disks. > > If there are mass of virtblks(exceeding 263), there will be disks > > with the same name. > > > > By renaming "sd_format_disk_name()" to "disk_name_format()" > > and moving it into block core, virtio_blk can use this function to > > support mass of disks. > > > > Signed-off-by: Ren Mingxin <renmx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > I guess it's already way too late but why couldn't they have been > named vdD-P where both D and P are integers denoting disk number and So, if a device name ends in digit the partition code adds delimiter 'p' automatically and this is already in use by md. So, partitioned md devices are named mdDpP where D and P are base 10 number indicating the sequence like md12p4. So, let's please add comment that new drivers should name their devices PREFIX%d where the sequence number can be allocated by ida. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
