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From: Alessandro Rubini <rubini@gnudd.com>
To: cascardo@holoscopio.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, device@lanana.org, gregkh@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] misc: use a proper range for minor number dynamic allocation
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 13:05:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091103120502.GA8304@mail.gnudd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1256340497-19320-1-git-send-email-cascardo@holoscopio.com>

Hello.
Please forgive my delay.

> First of all, the range for dynamic numbers include some statically
> allocated numbers. It goes from 63 to 0, and we have numbers in the
> range from 1 to 15 already allocated.

Yes, I wrote it ages ago. The "same as major numbers" testifies it.

I think your changes are sane, howver "git am" complains that
"patch doesn't apply". However, plain "patch -p1" liked it, so
I could test the result.

I think you need to rebase on current upstream, but apart from
that

Acked-By: Alessandro Rubini <rubini@vision.unipv.it>

/alessandro

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-03 12:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-23 23:28 [PATCH] misc: use a proper range for minor number dynamic allocation Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2009-11-03 12:05 ` Alessandro Rubini [this message]
2009-11-09 21:28 ` Andrew Morton
2009-11-09 21:32   ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-09 22:02   ` Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2009-11-09 23:29     ` Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2009-11-09 23:40       ` Andrew Morton
2009-11-10 11:09     ` Alan Cox
2009-11-10 17:15       ` Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2009-11-09 23:03   ` [Cluster-devel] " David Teigland
2009-11-10 11:10     ` Steven Whitehouse
2009-11-10 11:16       ` Alan Cox

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