From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>,
Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>, bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>,
Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Wim Coekaerts <Wim.Coekaerts@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: 64-bit kdev_t - just for playing
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 08:35:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030401163522.GD1448@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1049208134.16073.11.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk>
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 03:42:14PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 00:42, Roman Zippel wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 31 Mar 2003, Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > > > 2. What compromises can we make for 2.6?
> > >
> > > Defaulting char devices to 256 minors and a lot of space so stuff doesnt
> > > break. Viro has done the block stuff and we have the scope to do sane
> > > stuff like /dev/disk/.. for all disks now.
> >
> > What do you mean with "a lot of space so stuff doesnt break"?
>
> We need to default to 12:20 for char but where the 20 is actually
> defaulting to 0000xx so we don't get extra minors for any device
> that hasnt been audited for it
I thought Andries's patch prevented the need for this, as it restricted
the number of minors assigned to a device unless they converted to the
new API.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-01 16:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-27 20:27 64-bit kdev_t - just for playing Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-27 22:12 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-27 22:55 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-27 23:19 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-27 23:48 ` Greg KH
2003-03-28 9:47 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-28 18:05 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-28 18:48 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-31 8:31 ` bert hubert
2003-03-31 8:52 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-31 17:24 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-31 21:32 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-31 22:18 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-31 23:42 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-01 14:42 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-01 16:35 ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-04-02 13:02 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-01 14:42 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-01 16:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-04-01 21:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-02 7:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-04-02 7:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-31 23:45 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-31 23:07 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-31 23:35 ` Roman Zippel
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-09 18:40 James Bottomley
2003-04-09 20:54 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-10 2:19 ` James Bottomley
2003-04-10 12:47 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-10 15:30 ` James Bottomley
2003-04-10 23:53 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-11 0:01 ` David Lang
2003-04-11 0:17 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-11 0:47 ` Joel Becker
2003-04-11 1:11 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-09 18:36 Andries.Brouwer
2003-04-09 21:11 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-01 18:32 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-31 23:41 Badari Pulavarty
2003-03-31 23:54 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-03-31 23:55 ` Joel Becker
2003-04-02 12:18 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-02 17:31 ` Badari Pulavarty
2003-04-02 22:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-03 10:09 ` David Lang
2003-04-03 11:14 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2003-04-03 12:13 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-03 13:37 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-04-03 14:01 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-07 15:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-07 20:10 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-07 21:57 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-07 22:43 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-04-08 15:22 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-08 22:53 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-04-08 23:11 ` David Lang
2003-04-08 23:47 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-04-08 23:58 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-04-08 23:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-08 23:06 ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-09 0:40 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-09 1:02 ` Joel Becker
2003-04-09 1:25 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-09 16:42 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-09 0:21 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-11 9:58 ` Pavel Machek
2003-04-08 15:29 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-28 15:33 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-28 15:49 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-28 11:46 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-28 11:57 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-28 11:10 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-28 11:36 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-30 20:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-30 20:13 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-27 22:37 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-27 22:55 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-27 1:09 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-27 19:23 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-30 20:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
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