Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Wed, 23 Apr 2003 17:19:20 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kdevt-diff |
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Hi!
> > > 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. > > Ok, here is a compromise proposal. I don't care very much about the MKDEV > macro and almost nobody else should care about it either. > My main concern with a larger dev_t is that people start to go wild and > waste the number range with crap. So what I'd like to see is some usage > policy, e.g. nobody should assume a certain dev_t size, so that it's still > possible to scale it down. If the user has only a small number of devices, > they should be addressable even with a 16 bit dev_t.
What's the point? Its not like 8 bytes are that much... Your "number range" is essentially free, and its okay to waste it... Pavel -- When do you have a heart between your knees? [Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?] - 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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