Re: [patch 0/5] st: Clean up and raise max device limit (v4)

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On Sat, 18 Aug 2012, Jeff Mahoney wrote:

> This patchset cleans up the SCSI tape device handling code and leverages it
> to lift the limitation of the number of tape drives from the previous
> arbitrary limit of 128 to the maximum supported by a device node that
> creates 8 character devices per physical device. Since minors are 20 bits,
> that means 2^17 tape drives can be supported.
> 
> Changed in this version: A previous revision introduced a regression where
> tape drives would not be shown as tape devices in lsscsi. This was due to
> the missing "tape" symlink in sysfs. That issue has been addressed and
> lsscsi works properly again. Also, it passes checkpatch with no errors.
> 
> Please apply.
> 
The whole series (1-5):

Acked-by: Kai Mäkisara <kai.makisara@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Kai

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