Re: [PATCH] register_blkdev

Joel Becker
2003-03-07T22:45:04Z

On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:12:17PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 12:30:29PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 32-bit dev_t is an important (and very late!) thing to get into the 2.5
> > stream. Can we put this ahead of cleanup stuff?
>
> Can we get people to agree that this will even go into 2.5, due to the
> lateness of it? I didn't think it was going to happen.

This is essential. There are installations using >1000 disks
today (on other OSes, generally). It can't wait another 2.5 years.

Joel

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