Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Apr 2003 21:34:11 +0200 (CEST) | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kdevt-diff |
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Hi,
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> And the 32+32 split is what the new maximum would be, so .. > > The 16+16 split is not strictly necessary, but Andries pointed out to me > that there are filesystems etc external storage that only support a 32-bit > opaque dev_t, so we'd need to marshall the device number _some_ way for > them anyway, and having a standard way to do that is better than having > everybody come up with their own variations. > > (My prefernce for the 32-bit version would be 12+20 bits, but it's not a > very strong one, and it doesn't really matter for the kernel proper, so I > think Andries who has been tirelessly working on this for five years or > more gets the final say on it).
If you want to argue this way, I urge to ask Al as well, as he did most of the hard work to remove the block device limits. For some reason everyone likes to disagree with me, but I would accept his judgement.
bye, Roman
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