[openib-general] Re: InfiniBand MAD device number request

[Torben Mathiasen]

On Fri, Jan 14 2005, Roland Dreier wrote:
>     Torben> But, initially we were talking 32 or 64 minors, now its 2K
>     Torben> or 4K? If you really need that many, no problem, but try
>     Torben> to think about if its really necessary.  Thats a LOT of
>     Torben> minors.
> 
> Fair enough, I was just getting overexcited by all the space that's
> available up there.  Let's just allocate 64 minors for
> /dev/infiniband/umad0 ... /dev/infiniband/umad63 and be ready to
> allocate at least two or three more chunks for 64 minors soon.
>

Ok here's the deal. I started a new 2.6+ device list. This list will start to
have more 2.6+ specific entries. You new major/minors are:

231 char	InfiniBand MAD
	0 = /dev/infiniband/umad0
	1 = /dev/infiniband/umad1
	 ...

So far you have the whole major.

The updated list is available at lanana.org.

Thanks,
Torben