Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 01 Apr 2003 23:22:29 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: 64-bit kdev_t - just for playing |
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Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > For block devices this is no problem, they register regions not majors. > For character devices that sounds the way to go, too. I'll look into it > once I've finished by devfs API sanitizing, but if viro magically reappeared > and could post his existing patches for it this would make it even easier... >
Personally I think it's needless complexity (workaround for a too-small address space which is better fixed by making the address space larger), but it does allow for more flexibility and assuming it doesn't come with unacceptable overhead I guess it doesn't hurt.
-hpa
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