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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 01:14:23AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> 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 ?

Do you mean to only increase the number of majors, and not minors then?

greg k-h
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