> > > Linus, if you still want to go for a single block device major, this patch
> > > is bad idea (at least in this form).
> >
> > I disagree.
>
> Ok, here is a compromise proposal. I don't care very much about the MKDEV
> macro and almost nobody else should care about it either.
> My main concern with a larger dev_t is that people start to go wild and
> waste the number range with crap. So what I'd like to see is some usage
> policy, e.g. nobody should assume a certain dev_t size, so that it's still
> possible to scale it down. If the user has only a small number of devices,
> they should be addressable even with a 16 bit dev_t.
What's the point? Its not like 8 bytes are that much... Your "number
range" is essentially free, and its okay to waste it...
Pavel
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