Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Apr 2003 02:17:27 +0200 (CEST) | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | Re: 64-bit kdev_t - just for playing |
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Hi,
On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, David Lang wrote:
> nobody has claimed that MAKEDEV and similar wouldn't need to be changed, > just that changing them is not a major deal, and is far less work then > implementing dynamic numbering.
Dynamic numbering is simple (scsi does it already), the big problem is to manage a large number of devices in a scalable way and keeping as much as possible dynamic actually helps here.
bye, Roman
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