Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Mar 2003 17:05:20 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] register_blkdev |
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Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 01:14:23AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 23:45, Greg KH wrote: > > > I would too. Andries's patches look like the right thing to do, so far > > > as I've seen. But there are larger, social issues, that probably need > > > to be answered first (like convincing Linus and others that this is > > > really needed). > > > > > > > > But if it is, a lot of character drivers need to be audited... > > > > > > > > What has to be done there? > > > > > > I haven't seen a patch yet, to really know what will be necessary. But > > > for one, a lot of drivers have static arrays where they just "know" that > > > there can't be more than 256 minors under their control. > > > > So we need a maxminors flag in the register for 2.6 I guess ? > > Do you mean to only increase the number of majors, and not minors then? >
Some time back Linus expressed a preference for a 2^20 major / 2^12 minor split. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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