Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/11/02/21:00:16
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According to Loh, Joe on 11/2/2006 5:29 PM:
> Really appreaciate the recommendation that Dave Korn suggested. We went
> ahead and modified the cygwin1.dll for version 1.5.19-4, which is the
> one we have installed for testing. In the event of checking out our
> change we found a bug in the current SCSI device handling of major
> number 65, i.e. any devices mapping from /dev/sdq thru dev/sdz. There
> was a missing case in dtable.cc file inhibiting access to /dev/sdq thru
> /dev/sdz. We have checked the latest source in the cvs repository and
> noticed that the case is still missing. We are posting the fix here
> just in case others are interested:
Yes, this sort of trivial patch would be very likely to be included, if
sent to the cygwin-patches list.
> In addition, if anyone is interested in patching for more SCSI device
> mapping up to 64, here are the changes we did. We were testing iSCSI
> volumes up to 32, including the host direct attached, a total of 33.
> Hence, we mapped all of the major block device 65, which leaves us one
> short. So, we decided to define 2 more major block device, 66 & 67 to
> give us a total of 64 devices for any possible future support. These
> major numbers are consistent with what Linux uses according to
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/device-list/devices.txt. Following
> is the patch we did. We would appreciate it if the Cygwin developers
> would consider extending the support to future Cygwin releases as we
> like testing with Cygwin as it's distributed.
That starts to become non-trivial, so you need to review
http://cygwin.com/contrib.html, including the bit about copyright
assignment. You also need a changelog entry for the patch to be accepted.
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Eric Blake ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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