Mostly dynamically it seems
> 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.
> Without answering these questions now, we risk to pay heavily for it
> later. The ones who ask now for a larger dev_t the loudest are likely the
> first to demand later not change anything for "compability", because they
> hardcoded certain assumptions about dev_t into their applications.
Glibc already has a bigger dev_t
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