Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 24 Mar 2003 15:04:59 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] revert register_chrdev_region change |
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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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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