From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/13] Always define MAX_RAW_MINORS as 65535 in userspace
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 20:08:26 -0700 (PDT)
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On Tue, 15 Sep 2015 13:42:47 PDT (-0700), hpa@zytor.com wrote:
> On 09/14/2015 03:50 PM, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
>> While I don't think this was ever meant to be exposed to userspace, if
>> anyone is using it then this will at least provide a correct (if
>> unlikely) definition.
>>
>> MAX_RAW_MINORS used to be used in the kernel, where it's been replaced
>> with CONFIG_MAX_RAW_MINORS.
>>
>> Note that there's a checkpatch.pl warning about a split config string
>> here, but I've left that alone.
>
> From a UAPI perspective I would think the right value would be 2^20.

Wow, I'm super surprised.  For some reason I thought major/minor
numbers were 16 bits, but according to glibc I just have no idea what
I'm doing :).

Thanks for catching this!