Re: regarding major number of block extended devt

[Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>  259 block    Block extended device numbers
>>
>>         This is pool of dynamically allocated block device
>>         numbers.  Currently, ide and sd overflows into this
>>         region if there are more partitions than the existing
>>         device number scheme can accomodate, but any block
>>         device can use it and it's not restricted to
>>         overflows.
>>
> 
> It would seem better to simply use the high minors on the
> already-existing ide and scsi majors?

I thought it would be better to break from those majors to make it clear
that the traditional minor allocation scheme isn't followed anymore.
Programs which expect certain majors are likely to need update for how
it deals with minors, so....

Thanks.

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tejun