Re: 64-bit kdev_t - just for playing

From: Roman Zippel (zippel@linux-m68k.org)
Date: Thu Apr 10 2003 - 19:17:27 EST


Hi,

On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, David Lang wrote:

> nobody has claimed that MAKEDEV and similar wouldn't need to be changed,
> just that changing them is not a major deal, and is far less work then
> implementing dynamic numbering.

Dynamic numbering is simple (scsi does it already), the big problem is to
manage a large number of devices in a scalable way and keeping as much as
possible dynamic actually helps here.

bye, Roman

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