Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Apr 2003 20:31:21 +0200 (CEST) | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kdevt-diff |
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Hi,
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Linus, if you still want to go for a single block device major, this patch > > is bad idea (at least in this form). > > I disagree. > > I think the single block-device major is a totally separate issue, and has > nothing to do with allowing big device_t representations. I do not see why > Andries patch would be anything else than infrastructure for future > expansion.
Expansion into what? The knowledge about dev_t is already reduced to a minimum in a lot of block device drivers. register_blkdev() is already pretty much a dummy and not a requirement anymore.
bye, Roman
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