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    SubjectRe: devlinks: an alternative to devfs
    On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:

    >>Devlinks solve the limitation of 8-bit minor numbers almost forever
    >>(there is some huge limit on the length of a filename but I doubt that
    >>will ever be a problem).
    >
    >ok. but you mix several topics (devfs has nothing to do with 8 bit minor
    >numbers).

    Excuse my ignorance (I know that sure I am missing something), but why
    don' t change in /usr/src/linux/include/linux/kdev_t.h from:

    typedef unsigned short kdev_t;

    to:

    typedef unsigned int kdev_t;

    and we will have magically space for 16 bit minor and major numbers. Then
    we need to change MINORBITS to 16 and all others 8 to 16...

    Andrea[s] Arcangeli


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