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SubjectRe: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 : can't insmod dm-mod
Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr> wrote:
>
> Le 04.02.2005 19:33, Andrew Morton a écrit :
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc3/2.6.11-rc3-mm1/
> >
>
> loading dm-mod module fails with this message :
>
> FATAL: Error inserting dm-mod
> (/lib/modules/2.6.11-rc3-mm1/kernel/drivers/md/dm-mod.ko): Device or resource busy
>
> The following line appears in dmesg :
>
> register_blkdev: failed to get major for device-mapper

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?

Also, we can never generate a major number of zero if the caller passed in
major=0. How come?


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