From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, device@lanana.org,
rubini@vision.unipv.it, gregkh@suse.de, cluster-devel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] misc: use a proper range for minor number dynamic allocation
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:32:20 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AF88A64.7010903@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091109132836.6cf7f559.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On 11/09/2009 01:28 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
>> The proposed solution uses the not yet reserved range from 64 to 127. If
>> more devices are needed, we may push 64 to 16. Moreover, if we don't
>> need to give priority to the higher numbers anymore, we can start using
>> the bitmap/bitops functions.
>
> So... misc minors 64 to 127 are presently unused?
>
Perhaps we should just start at 256 and go upward, or even 1048575 and
go downward.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-09 21:33 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
2009-11-09 21:28 ` Andrew Morton
2009-11-09 21:32 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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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