Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Mar 2003 18:18:19 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] register_blkdev |
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On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Joel Becker wrote: > > That said, however /dev is populated, we need the dev_t space to > represent the devices :-)
And realize that these things are often limited by on-disk / wire representations. Some of which are easier to fix than others (ie, think about NFS servers running old versions of Linux).
Linus
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