Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 12:57:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 12:57:21 -0500 Received: from inet-mail3.oracle.com ([148.87.2.203]:8936 "EHLO inet-mail3.oracle.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 12:57:20 -0500 Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 10:05:50 -0800 From: Joel Becker To: Roman Zippel Cc: Greg KH , Alan Cox , Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 64-bit kdev_t - just for playing Message-ID: <20030328180545.GG32000@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> References: <1048805732.3953.1.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030327234820.GE1687@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Burt-Line: Trees are cool. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1243 Lines: 33 On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 10:47:14AM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote: > On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Greg KH wrote: > > They point and guess, just like they do today :) > > I think the users which need this most won't be particular happy. I represent the users which need this most, and I an tell you we will be 100x happier pointing and guessing at enough dev_t space. If we were to have to stick with the ancient, serously outdated limits of the current space, we will be terribly unhappy. Not having the perfect solution all at once doesn't mean you do nothing. The size of dev_t is orthogonal to device naming. Once this is in, the current device naming (however poor it is) can handle the number of devices we need. Future device naming strategies (like the one Greg is working on) will work with a large dev_t just fine. Joel -- "Vote early and vote often." - Al Capone Joel Becker Senior Member of Technical Staff Oracle Corporation E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127 - 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/