tree d80e39b2cb033930854a672e55d5d031c4c7540a
parent 4f3bf19c6e8164b441faaee476e734b4f612a78d
author Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> 1201853100 +0100
committer Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> 1202129411 +1100

virtio_blk: implement naming for vda-vdz,vdaa-vdzz,vdaaa-vdzzz

Am Freitag, 1. Februar 2008 schrieb Christian Borntraeger:
> Right. I will fix that with an additional patch.

This patch goes on top of the minor number patch. Please let me know if
you want a merged patch:

Currently virtio_blk creates the disk name combinging "vd"  with 'a'++.
This will give strange names after vdz. I have implemented names up to
vdzzz - inspired by the sd.c code. That should be sufficient for now.

There is one driver in the kernel (driver/s390/block/dasd_genhd.c) that
implements names from dasda-dasdzzzz allowing even more disks. Maybe
a janitor can come up with a common implementation usable for all kind
of block device drivers.

I have tested this patch with 100 disks - seems to work.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>