Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Jan 1998 15:51:53 +0100 (CET) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: devlinks: an alternative to devfs |
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On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
>>Devlinks solve the limitation of 8-bit minor numbers almost forever >>(there is some huge limit on the length of a filename but I doubt that >>will ever be a problem). > >ok. but you mix several topics (devfs has nothing to do with 8 bit minor >numbers).
Excuse my ignorance (I know that sure I am missing something), but why don' t change in /usr/src/linux/include/linux/kdev_t.h from:
typedef unsigned short kdev_t;
to:
typedef unsigned int kdev_t;
and we will have magically space for 16 bit minor and major numbers. Then we need to change MINORBITS to 16 and all others 8 to 16...
Andrea[s] Arcangeli
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