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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Fwd: 32bit dev_t
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 22:51:25 +0000
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In-Reply-To: <20030124182952.GF20972@ca-server1.us.oracle.com>; from Joel.Becker@oracle.com on Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:29:53AM -0800
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On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:29:53AM -0800, Joel Becker wrote:
> 	How are they allocated?  Is this dynamic, or compiled in?  In
> addition, what is the maximum amount?  If it's less than 1000 disks,
> it's too small for today.  If it's less than 2000 disks, it's probably
> too small for 2.6's lifetime.

Currently it's compiled in, and the trivial change to make it use
register_blkdev with a 0 major argument until all globally unused majors
are gone is left to the reader..