Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 14 Sep 2000 18:24:23 -0400 | From | Matt Yourst <> | Subject | Re: Getting past the 16-bit dev_t limitation. |
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> >I am working on a project that is going to find the current limit of >16-bits for device numbers to be a pain. While looking around in the >linux-kernel archive, ... > This is the whole reason Linux 2.4 uses devfs (device filesystem) - there is no need to use device numbers; you just register the name in the /dev/whatever namespace and it's done. (The kernel will assign a unique old-style 16-bit number for compatibility purposes as needed.) See linux/Documentation/filesystems/devfs/README for the full story.
- Matt Yourst
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