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SubjectRe: regarding major number of block extended devt
Tejun Heo wrote:
>>
>> (a) we can't do anything about, but (b) we can, by introducing a
>> partition number attribute in sysfs.
>
> Yeah, that would certainly be a nice addition. Also, if partitions
> are made proper classes, they'll be easily enumerable by
> /sys/block/*/partitions/*.
>
> Jens, what do you think?
>

Note that addition /partitions/ is somewhat unlikely to be useful, since
existing code will have to search through random crap in sysfs to look
for the partition directories anyway.

-hpa


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