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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 10:25:40AM -0600, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
> 
> 
> On 12/06/17 10:35 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > Or better yet, just turn all char major allocations into dynamic, which
> > would be really good for test systems.  I thought someone proposed
> > patches for that a long time ago, but I can't find them anymore.  That
> > would be the simplest solution here.
> 
> Would people not complain about that? I would not be surprised if some
> crazy application is using hard coded major numbers in userspace. So
> such a change could potentially break userspace...

For char devices, I doubt it, but we can't take the chance, which is why
you make it an option.  Then, it's enabled for 'allmodconfig' builds,
which helps testers out.

thanks,

greg k-h