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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: what's left for 64 bit dev_t
Date: 16 Jul 2003 20:02:21 -0700
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By author:    Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
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>
> 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
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