Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 64-bit kdev_t - just for playing | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 01 Apr 2003 15:42:24 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 00:42, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On 31 Mar 2003, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > 2. What compromises can we make for 2.6? > > > > Defaulting char devices to 256 minors and a lot of space so stuff doesnt > > break. Viro has done the block stuff and we have the scope to do sane > > stuff like /dev/disk/.. for all disks now. > > What do you mean with "a lot of space so stuff doesnt break"?
We need to default to 12:20 for char but where the 20 is actually defaulting to 0000xx so we don't get extra minors for any device that hasnt been audited for it
> > Glibc already has a bigger dev_t > > and a broken mknod implementation...
Easy enough to deal with
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