Re: [PATCH] register_blkdev

Linus Torvalds
2003-03-08T02:10:20Z

On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Joel Becker wrote:
>
> That said, however /dev is populated, we need the dev_t space to
> represent the devices :-)

And realize that these things are often limited by on-disk / wire
representations. Some of which are easier to fix than others (ie, think
about NFS servers running old versions of Linux).

Linus