Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Apr 2003 08:35:22 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: 64-bit kdev_t - just for playing |
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On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 03:42:14PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 00:42, Roman Zippel wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On 31 Mar 2003, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > > 2. What compromises can we make for 2.6? > > > > > > Defaulting char devices to 256 minors and a lot of space so stuff doesnt > > > break. Viro has done the block stuff and we have the scope to do sane > > > stuff like /dev/disk/.. for all disks now. > > > > What do you mean with "a lot of space so stuff doesnt break"? > > We need to default to 12:20 for char but where the 20 is actually > defaulting to 0000xx so we don't get extra minors for any device > that hasnt been audited for it
I thought Andries's patch prevented the need for this, as it restricted the number of minors assigned to a device unless they converted to the new API.
thanks,
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