From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: what's left for 64 bit dev_t
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 15:48:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030716224838.GA3362@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030716151939.1762a3cf.akpm@osdl.org>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-16 22:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-16 18:46 [PATCH] print_dev_t for 2.6.0-test1-mm Greg KH
2003-07-16 20:09 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-16 21:02 ` Greg KH
2003-07-16 21:13 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-16 21:34 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-16 21:39 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-16 22:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-07-16 22:20 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-16 22:21 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-16 23:44 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-16 23:49 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-17 8:27 ` Joel Becker
2003-07-17 8:47 ` Roman Zippel
2003-07-17 9:15 ` Joel Becker
2003-07-17 9:24 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-17 10:10 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-07-17 11:46 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-17 11:52 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-17 10:26 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-17 10:46 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2003-07-17 11:19 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-17 11:46 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2003-07-17 21:55 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-17 22:24 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-17 22:43 ` Joel Becker
2003-07-17 23:11 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-17 23:49 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2003-07-18 0:04 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-18 0:04 ` Joel Becker
2003-07-18 1:05 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-18 8:06 ` Joel Becker
2003-07-17 3:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <200307170300.UAA24096@cesium.transmeta.com>
2003-07-17 10:43 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-20 14:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-07-16 21:36 ` Greg KH
2003-07-16 22:00 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-16 22:11 ` what's left for 64 bit dev_t Greg KH
2003-07-16 22:19 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-16 22:48 ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-07-17 3:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-07-17 13:59 ` Andries Brouwer
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