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SubjectRe: Allow setting of number of raw devices as a module parameter
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On Friday 29 April 2011 00:24:29 Jan Kara wrote:
> Allow setting of maximal number of raw devices as a module parameter. This
> requires changing of static array into a vmalloced one (the array is going to
> be too large for kmalloc).
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

Why don't you get rid of the global raw_devices array instead?

I suppose if you embed the struct cdev in raw_device_data and
register it during RAW_SETBIND separately for each raw device
instead of globally at raw_init time, you can support any number
of devices while making the code smaller and simpler. I suppose
you can even remove the raw_mutex then.

Arnd


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