Re: [PATCH] kdevt-diff

[Roman Zippel]

Hi,

On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> And the 32+32 split is what the new maximum would be, so ..
> 
> The 16+16 split is not strictly necessary, but Andries pointed out to me
> that there are filesystems etc external storage that only support a 32-bit
> opaque dev_t, so we'd need to marshall the device number _some_ way for
> them anyway, and having a standard way to do that is better than having
> everybody come up with their own variations.
> 
> (My prefernce for the 32-bit version would be 12+20 bits, but it's not a
> very strong one, and it doesn't really matter for the kernel proper, so I
> think Andries who has been tirelessly working on this for five years or
> more gets the final say on it).

If you want to argue this way, I urge to ask Al as well, as he did most of 
the hard work to remove the block device limits. For some reason everyone 
likes to disagree with me, but I would accept his judgement.

bye, Roman