From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Olof Johansson Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mmc: add config and runtime option for number of mmcblk minors Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 09:57:05 -0500 Message-ID: <20100908145705.GC23745@lixom.net> References: <20100818041333.GA14149@lixom.net> <20100818171636.0625b668.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20100819032230.GA21980@lixom.net> <20100820010242.GA29588@lixom.net> <20100820221323.GC8535@lixom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail.lixom.net ([70.86.134.90]:53951 "EHLO mail.lixom.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752931Ab0IHO5G (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2010 10:57:06 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-mmc-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org To: Lei Wen Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mandeep Baines Hi, On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 10:25:58PM +0800, Lei Wen wrote: > The patch's purpose is good. As modern sd&mmc is used to host the file > system, the 8 partition limitation is becoming a kind of bottleneck... > But why not just add GENHD_FL_EXT_DEVT flag to allow mmc use extended > partition numbers? No need to quote the whole patch next time. :) Given that MMC is sometimes used in deeply embedded environments where udev might not be running to take care of dynamic device numbering, I chose to stay with a static layout. I could be convinced otherwise though. It would cause some additional hassles for me since we start udev lateish during boot and have a prepopulated /dev before that, but that can be dealt with. -Olof