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On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 05:05:20PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
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> Some time back Linus expressed a preference for a 2^20 major / 2^12 minor split.

I remember that too. That's still increasing the number of minors, hence
my original reservation about auditing drivers.

thanks,

greg k-h
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