Jakub wrote a patch for the vger tree. It increased the size of dev_t
to handle more discs, which required new syscalls, which then required
new (patched) applications (like fdisk(8) and mount(8) IIRC).
An alternative that doesn't require a change in dev_t size or changes
to userspace is to use the automagic device number generation in
devfs, and use the filp->private_data mechanism to distinguish
partitions/drives. I've been planning on doing this, but haven't had
time. I'd welcome a patch, though :-)
Regards,
Richard....
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