From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: what's left for 64 bit dev_t
Date: 16 Jul 2003 20:02:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bf53jt$ni9$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030716224838.GA3362@kroah.com
Followup to: <20030716224838.GA3362@kroah.com>
By author: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 03:19:39PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > I expect we'll end up just jamming it in and seeing what happens.
>
> Sounds good to me :)
>
> I think the big problems will start to happen when people try to _use_
> the expanded namespace. Is LANANA set up to assign bigger numbers now?
> Are they going to carve them up into chunks? Or are we relying on
> userspace implementations like udev to handle the number management?
>
I suspect it will be a combination. In the short term I suspect John
Cagle (who is device@lanana) will fix the current glaring bogosities.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-17 2:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-16 18:46 [PATCH] print_dev_t for 2.6.0-test1-mm Greg KH
2003-07-16 20:09 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-16 21:02 ` Greg KH
2003-07-16 21:13 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-16 21:34 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-16 21:39 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-16 22:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-07-16 22:20 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-16 22:21 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-16 23:44 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-16 23:49 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-17 8:27 ` Joel Becker
2003-07-17 8:47 ` Roman Zippel
2003-07-17 9:15 ` Joel Becker
2003-07-17 9:24 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-17 10:10 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-07-17 11:46 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-17 11:52 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-17 10:26 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-17 10:46 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2003-07-17 11:19 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-17 11:46 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2003-07-17 21:55 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-17 22:24 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-17 22:43 ` Joel Becker
2003-07-17 23:11 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-17 23:49 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2003-07-18 0:04 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-18 0:04 ` Joel Becker
2003-07-18 1:05 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-18 8:06 ` Joel Becker
2003-07-17 3:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <200307170300.UAA24096@cesium.transmeta.com>
2003-07-17 10:43 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-20 14:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-07-16 21:36 ` Greg KH
2003-07-16 22:00 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-16 22:11 ` what's left for 64 bit dev_t Greg KH
2003-07-16 22:19 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-16 22:48 ` Greg KH
2003-07-17 3:02 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2003-07-17 13:59 ` Andries Brouwer
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