From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>,
Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org>, Dima Zavin <dima@android.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] mmc_block: Allow more than 8 partitions per card
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:22:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201104261522.22329.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1303520502-32171-3-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org>
On Saturday 23 April 2011, John Stultz wrote:
> From: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
>
> Set the GENHD_FL_EXT_DEVT flag, which will allocate minor numbers
> in major 259 for partitions past disk->minors.
>
> Also remove the use of disk_devt to determine devidx from md->disk.
> md->disk->first_minor is always initialized from devidx and can
> always be used to recover it.
>
> CC: Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org>
> CC: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> CC: Dima Zavin <dima@android.com>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
The new code looks reasonable, but wouldn't changing this be incompatible
with existing root file systems that contain static device nodes?
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-26 13:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-23 1:01 [PATCH 0/6] Trivial MMC patches from Android John Stultz
2011-04-23 1:01 ` [PATCH 1/6] mmc: block: Resume multi-block reads after transient read errors John Stultz
2011-04-26 13:19 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-27 8:16 ` Adrian Hunter
2011-04-27 8:42 ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-23 1:01 ` [PATCH 2/6] mmc_block: Allow more than 8 partitions per card John Stultz
2011-04-26 13:22 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2011-04-26 16:10 ` Colin Cross
2011-04-26 16:13 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-23 1:01 ` [PATCH 3/6] sdhci: Always pass clock request value zero to set_clock host op John Stultz
2011-04-23 1:01 ` [PATCH 4/6] mmc: sd: Add new CONFIG_MMC_PARANOID_SD_INIT for enabling retries during SD detection John Stultz
2011-04-26 13:35 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-23 1:01 ` [PATCH 5/6] mmc: sd: When resuming, try a little harder to init the card John Stultz
2011-04-26 13:39 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-23 1:01 ` [PATCH 6/6] mmc: sd: Add retries in re-detection John Stultz
2011-04-26 13:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
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