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Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 20:31:21 +0200 (CEST)
From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
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Hi,

On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> > Linus, if you still want to go for a single block device major, this patch 
> > is bad idea (at least in this form).
> 
> I disagree.
> 
> I think the single block-device major is a totally separate issue, and has 
> nothing to do with allowing big device_t representations. I do not see why 
> Andries patch would be anything else than infrastructure for future 
> expansion.

Expansion into what?
The knowledge about dev_t is already reduced to a minimum in a lot of 
block device drivers. register_blkdev() is already pretty much a dummy and 
not a requirement anymore.

bye, Roman