From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andries Brouwer Subject: Re: New model for managing dev_t's for partitionable block devices Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 18:38:37 +0100 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030129173837.GA3979@win.tue.nl> References: <3E380532.2010900@mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E380532.2010900@mvista.com> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Steven Dake Cc: Bryan Henderson , Alan Cox , Douglas Gilbert , Christoph Hellwig , Joel Becker , Kurt Garloff , linux-kernel@kernel.vger.org, Linux SCSI list On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 09:45:38AM -0700, Steven Dake wrote: > What is needed is a compromise, described above, limiting the number of > partitions to some sane amount, but allowing significantly more disks > for the power user. Always this discussion, over and over again. Changing dev_t to be 32-bit is something many people that take part in this discussion could do in a few hours. The subsequent kernel audit takes a weekend. Is there a reason everybody prefers to discuss ugly hacks? Andries