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On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 23:45, Greg KH wrote:
> I would too.  Andries's patches look like the right thing to do, so far
> as I've seen.  But there are larger, social issues, that probably need
> to be answered first (like convincing Linus and others that this is
> really needed).
> 
> > > But if it is, a lot of character drivers need to be audited...
> > 
> > What has to be done there?
> 
> I haven't seen a patch yet, to really know what will be necessary.  But
> for one, a lot of drivers have static arrays where they just "know" that
> there can't be more than 256 minors under their control.

So we need a maxminors flag in the register for 2.6 I guess ?



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