On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 10:39:25AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: > This is another thing that has always put me off. The virtual block > device driver has the ability to masquerade as other types of block > devices. It actually claims to be an IDE or SCSI device allocating the > appropriate major/minor numbers. > > This seems to be pretty evil and creating interesting failure conditions > for users who load IDE or SCSI modules. I've seen it trip up a number > of people in the past. I think we should only ever use the major number > that was actually allocated to us. Exactly. We vetoed crap like that in the ibm vio drivers already so it was removed before merging those drivers.
