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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:08:22 +0000
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 07:32:51 +0200
Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il> wrote:

> Hi Jiri, Alan,
> 
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 02:09:45PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> > On 11/16/2010 12:04 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > Sixteen devices is way too many for drivers/misc - it only has 256 total
> > > and only half of those are dynamic.
> > 
> > Seconded. (And it's a quarter, not even a half like I already wrote.)
> 
> If I reduce the maximal number of devices to 4, will it make any difference? I 
> don't mind even having a limit of 2 by default, as long as a simple define 
> change is enough to raise this limit.

No look you can need more than two, its not a one off special device it
doesn't use the misc minor space.

Allocate some dynamic device space.

Alan