Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271157AbTGPWea (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 18:34:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271170AbTGPWe3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 18:34:29 -0400 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([65.200.24.183]:18157 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271157AbTGPWe0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 18:34:26 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 15:48:38 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: what's left for 64 bit dev_t Message-ID: <20030716224838.GA3362@kroah.com> References: <20030716184609.GA1913@kroah.com> <20030716130915.035a13ca.akpm@osdl.org> <20030716210253.GD2279@kroah.com> <20030716141320.5bd2a8b3.akpm@osdl.org> <20030716213607.GA2773@kroah.com> <20030716150010.6ba8416f.akpm@osdl.org> <20030716221154.GA3051@kroah.com> <20030716151939.1762a3cf.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030716151939.1762a3cf.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 690 Lines: 17 On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 03:19:39PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > I expect we'll end up just jamming it in and seeing what happens. Sounds good to me :) I think the big problems will start to happen when people try to _use_ the expanded namespace. Is LANANA set up to assign bigger numbers now? Are they going to carve them up into chunks? Or are we relying on userspace implementations like udev to handle the number management? greg k-h - 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/