Re: 64-bit kdev_t - just for playing

[H. Peter Anvin]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> For block devices this is no problem, they register regions not majors.
> For character devices that sounds the way to go, too.  I'll look into it
> once I've finished by devfs API sanitizing, but if viro magically reappeared
> and could post his existing patches for it this would make it even easier...
 >

Personally I think it's needless complexity (workaround for a too-small 
address space which is better fixed by making the address space larger), 
but it does allow for more flexibility and assuming it doesn't come with 
unacceptable overhead I guess it doesn't hurt.

	-hpa