Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 17:45:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 17:45:04 -0500 Received: from inet-mail3.oracle.com ([148.87.2.203]:3557 "EHLO inet-mail3.oracle.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 17:45:02 -0500 Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 14:55:18 -0800 From: Joel Becker To: Greg KH Cc: Andrew Morton , Christoph Hellwig , Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] register_blkdev Message-ID: <20030307225517.GF2835@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> References: <20030307193644.A14196@infradead.org> <20030307123029.2bc91426.akpm@digeo.com> <20030307221217.GB21315@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030307221217.GB21315@kroah.com> X-Burt-Line: Trees are cool. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 960 Lines: 29 On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:12:17PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 12:30:29PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > 32-bit dev_t is an important (and very late!) thing to get into the 2.5 > > stream. Can we put this ahead of cleanup stuff? > > Can we get people to agree that this will even go into 2.5, due to the > lateness of it? I didn't think it was going to happen. This is essential. There are installations using >1000 disks today (on other OSes, generally). It can't wait another 2.5 years. Joel -- Life's Little Instruction Book #237 "Seek out the good in people." Joel Becker Senior Member of Technical Staff Oracle Corporation E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/