Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 5 Apr 2008 13:01:02 +0200 | From | Pierre Ossman <> | Subject | Re: [MMC Stack] Partition limitation question |
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On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:38:04 -0700 (PDT) Rogier Stam <r_stam3108@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > I had a short question about the limitation of max. 8 > partitions in the MMC stack. Before the kernel was > limited to 256 minor numbers, but I believe this is no > longer the case (65536 if I recall correctly). Is > there a way around this 8 partition limitation? >
Who in their right mind has more than 8 partitions? :)
> I understand that simply renumbering all minor numbers > is not really a preferred situation as it would > require everyone to recreate their device nodes.
Indeed. And some embedded systems might not be able to use 32-bit device nodes. Russell, do you have any insight to share?
Rgds
-- -- Pierre Ossman
Linux kernel, MMC maintainer http://www.kernel.org PulseAudio, core developer http://pulseaudio.org rdesktop, core developer http://www.rdesktop.org
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