From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262196AbTDHWlh (for ); Tue, 8 Apr 2003 18:41:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262197AbTDHWlh (for ); Tue, 8 Apr 2003 18:41:37 -0400 Received: from almesberger.net ([63.105.73.239]:522 "EHLO host.almesberger.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262196AbTDHWlf (for ); Tue, 8 Apr 2003 18:41:35 -0400 Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 19:53:05 -0300 From: Werner Almesberger To: Roman Zippel Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 64-bit kdev_t - just for playing Message-ID: <20030408195305.F19288@almesberger.net> References: <200303311541.50200.pbadari@us.ibm.com> <20030403133725.GA14027@win.tue.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from zippel@linux-m68k.org on Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 11:57:56PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Roman Zippel wrote: > Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 22:10:11 +0200 (CEST) [...] > Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 23:57:56 +0200 (CEST) [...] > Ok, Peter refuses to give me an answer to that, That was a quick conclusion, after less than two hours :-) Anyway, I agree with your general concern. It only seems good engineering practice to also look at the numbering schemes that are supposed to go with the device number enlargement. Or, alternatively, to make sure that it's trivial to make further enlargements (or shrinkages), if the need for them should arise. I didn't look at the issue in detail, but perhaps the latter is the case ? - Werner -- _________________________________________________________________________ / Werner Almesberger, Buenos Aires, Argentina wa@almesberger.net / /_http://www.almesberger.net/____________________________________________/