Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271335AbTGQCrn (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 22:47:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271337AbTGQCrn (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 22:47:43 -0400 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:64012 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271335AbTGQCrl (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 22:47:41 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: what's left for 64 bit dev_t Date: 16 Jul 2003 20:02:21 -0700 Organization: Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara CA Message-ID: References: <20030716184609.GA1913@kroah.com> <20030716221154.GA3051@kroah.com> <20030716151939.1762a3cf.akpm@osdl.org> <20030716224838.GA3362@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Disclaimer: Not speaking for Transmeta in any way, shape, or form. Copyright: Copyright 2003 H. Peter Anvin - All Rights Reserved Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1227 Lines: 30 Followup to: <20030716224838.GA3362@kroah.com> By author: Greg KH In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > 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? > I suspect it will be a combination. In the short term I suspect John Cagle (who is device@lanana) will fix the current glaring bogosities. -hpa -- at work, in private! If you send me mail in HTML format I will assume it's spam. "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." Architectures needed: ia64 m68k mips64 ppc ppc64 s390 s390x sh v850 x86-64 - 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/