Re: 64-bit kdev_t - just for playing

[Greg KH]

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