Re: Re[2]: HEADSUP: linux dev_t emulation

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To: dima <_pppp@mail.ru>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:12:47 +0100

In message <E1D9kCx-000BeX-00._pppp-mail-ru@f30.mail.ru>, dima writes:
>> In message <20050310222652.GA31757@infradead.org>, Christoph Hellwig writes:
>>>On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 10:11:44PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Linux has only 8 bit major + 8 bit minor dev_t.
>>>
>>>Not true anymore. Current Linux has 12bit major and 20bit minor.
>>
>> Well, that doesn't change the situation: the linuxolator has a task
>> to learn.
>
>A translation table probably?

If so then the table will have to key off the name in the cdevsw
associated with the cdev since our major/minor numbers are no longer
constant across reboots (just like hardware configurations are not).

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