Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Feb 2005 16:29:45 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 : can't insmod dm-mod |
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On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 03:26:05AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > You've enabled CONFIG_BASE_SMALL and so the major_names[] hashtable has > just one element. device-mapper uses dynamic major allocation, the range > of which is limited to the size of the top-level major_names[] array. You > ran out of slots and register_blkdev() failed. > > So for now I guess we must drop base-small-shrink-major_names-hash.patch. > > Al, that code looks rather crappy. Shouldn't we be using an idr tree or > something?
It'd be nice to see major_names just gone completely. It's only used for /proc/devices output, and with the infrastucture for easily sharing majors that one is completely misleading..
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