Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: what's left for 64 bit dev_t | Date | 16 Jul 2003 20:02:21 -0700 |
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Followup to: <20030716224838.GA3362@kroah.com> By author: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 03:19:39PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > I expect we'll end up just jamming it in and seeing what happens. > > Sounds good to me :) > > I think the big problems will start to happen when people try to _use_ > the expanded namespace. Is LANANA set up to assign bigger numbers now? > Are they going to carve them up into chunks? Or are we relying on > userspace implementations like udev to handle the number management? >
I suspect it will be a combination. In the short term I suspect John Cagle (who is device@lanana) will fix the current glaring bogosities.
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