Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 16:44:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 16:44:31 -0500 Received: from phoenix.mvhi.com ([195.224.96.167]:59405 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 16:44:30 -0500 Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 21:55:06 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] register_blkdev Message-ID: <20030308215506.A881@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20030308073407.A24272@infradead.org> <20030308192908.GB26374@kroah.com> <20030308194331.A31291@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from hpa@zytor.com on Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 01:26:37PM -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 679 Lines: 14 On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 01:26:37PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > We need it if anything even more for character devices. Character > devices are under even more allocation pressure, and just look at the > ugly hacks we've already had to play for e.g. tty devices. Yes. That's why the work applied to block devices already needs to be done to character device too and as a side-effect we get an almost 32bit dev_t clean tree, too. - 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/