Re: what's left for 64 bit dev_t

H. Peter Anvin
2003-07-17T02:47:43Z

Followup to: <20030716224838.GA3362@kroah.com>
By author: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 03:19:39PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > I expect we'll end up just jamming it in and seeing what happens.
>
> Sounds good to me :)
>
> I think the big problems will start to happen when people try to _use_
> the expanded namespace. Is LANANA set up to assign bigger numbers now?
> Are they going to carve them up into chunks? Or are we relying on
> userspace implementations like udev to handle the number management?
>

I suspect it will be a combination. In the short term I suspect John
Cagle (who is device@lanana) will fix the current glaring bogosities.

-hpa
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