Re: 64-bit kdev_t - just for playing

Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Tue, 1 Apr 2003 17:52:56 +0100


On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 03:42:24PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> 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

Why do we need a split at all? Just make it reserve a 8k range which
is the same as the old major. No problem with wasting space then.

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