Re: regarding major number of block extended devt

[H. Peter Anvin]

Tejun Heo wrote:
> Tejun Heo wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Extended devt is scheduled for 2.6.28 merge and is currently using 259.
> > Can extended devt keep this major or should it use something else?
>
> Oops, I forgot to write information about ext devt.
>
>  259 block	Block extended device numbers
>
> 		This is pool of dynamically allocated block device
> 		numbers.  Currently, ide and sd overflows into this
> 		region if there are more partitions than the existing
> 		device number scheme can accomodate, but any block
> 		device can use it and it's not restricted to
> 		overflows.

It would seem better to simply use the high minors on the 
already-existing ide and scsi majors?

	-hpa
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