From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 11:23:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 11:23:09 -0500 Received: from e31.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.129]:48034 "EHLO e31.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 11:21:50 -0500 Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 08:35:22 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Alan Cox Cc: Roman Zippel , Joel Becker , bert hubert , Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Wim Coekaerts Subject: Re: 64-bit kdev_t - just for playing Message-ID: <20030401163522.GD1448@kroah.com> References: <20030328180545.GG32000@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> <20030331083157.GA29029@outpost.ds9a.nl> <20030331172403.GM32000@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> <1049149133.1287.1.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <1049208134.16073.11.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1049208134.16073.11.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 03:42:14PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 00:42, Roman Zippel wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On 31 Mar 2003, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > > 2. What compromises can we make for 2.6? > > > > > > Defaulting char devices to 256 minors and a lot of space so stuff doesnt > > > break. Viro has done the block stuff and we have the scope to do sane > > > stuff like /dev/disk/.. for all disks now. > > > > What do you mean with "a lot of space so stuff doesnt break"? > > We need to default to 12:20 for char but where the 20 is actually > defaulting to 0000xx so we don't get extra minors for any device > that hasnt been audited for it I thought Andries's patch prevented the need for this, as it restricted the number of minors assigned to a device unless they converted to the new API. thanks, greg k-h