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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/3] revert register_chrdev_region change
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 03:25:15PM +0100, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> It still looks like you do not understand the purpose of these patches.
> First of all, it is a series - code is morphed into a more desirable
> state; at each point in time there are imperfections, and some of these
> disappear the next stage.
> The first goal is not at all handling many devices. The first goal is
> having a larger dev_t. Handling many devices comes after that.

Well, there's people here who disagree with tour order. And yes, making
dev_t larger before making the kernel ready for a large number of devices
is the wrong way around.

If you look at Roman's patches they don't even hinder your dev_t enlargement
but they provide a singificant benefit. Now I'm personally not yet
completly happy with his interface either because he still uses the
major/minor split, but I'm working on fixing this properly.
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