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To: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] register_blkdev 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 07 Mar 2003 14:55:18 -0800."
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Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 00:32:56 -0400
From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
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Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com> said:
> 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.

This kind of changes in the middle of feature freeze are exactly what gets
you to 2.5 years.
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