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SubjectRe: [PATCH] kdevt-diff
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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