[Bug 19625] Re: minor numbers 255 not supported

2013-04-25 Thread Ed L. Cashin
Lars, the v47q driver does not support many slots per shelf address, but v50 began to add flexibility for handling a greater range of AoE target numbers while retaining the support for multiple partitions per AoE device. The v81 driver in the 3.8 kernel supports AoE (major, minor) address pairs

[Bug 19625] Re: minor numbers 255 not supported

2013-04-22 Thread Lars
Hi there, there seems to be a bug in the aoe driver version 47q. It can use only aoe devices with minor number less than 16. An aoe target configured with e.g. major = 2 minor = 16 is shown as major = 3 minor = 0 (target e2.17 is shown as e3.1 on client and so on) This seems to be true with