Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:21:32 +0200 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: regarding major number of block extended devt |
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H. Peter Anvin wrote: > But just allocating a big bucket of device numbers and throw it all into > a pot semirandomly is likely to cause more damage, not less.
To use ext devt, the system has to use udev for device numbers. As long as udev is used, the major number doesn't matter. In addition, breaking drastically (e.g. can't find the device) seems better than subtle failure (e.g. weird partition number calculation based on the traditional minor number scheme) and CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT is exactly aimed at making breakages obvious.
I don't really see there's much to gain by sharing the original major numbers.
Thanks.
-- tejun
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