Re: [PATCH] stat: don't fail if the major number is >= 256

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 07:47:44PM -1000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Considering that BLOCK_EXT_MAJOR has been 259 since 2008, and this is
> the first time anybody has hit this, I don't think there's much reason
> to change that major number when the whole error case seems to have
> been largely a mistake to begin with.

Yeah.  If Mikulas still has a problem he could just patch
BLOCK_EXT_MAJOR locally.