Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 8 Mar 2003 11:29:08 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] register_blkdev |
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On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 07:34:07AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 04:53:33PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > driver asks for a major, today it only thinks it has 256 minors, so that > > number is usually hard coded in an array. If a open() happens on a > > minor outside that range, the driver will die a horrible death, right? > > Yes. That's why the character device code should get a similar massaging > as the block layer code got in 2.5. But I don't really see this happen > in the 2.6 timeframe, especially given that there are a lot more character > than block drivers.
I agree, I thought this was a 2.7 change, but it's looking like people want this change sooner :)
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