On Saturday 23 April 2011, John Stultz wrote:
> From: Colin Cross <[email protected]>
>
> Set the GENHD_FL_EXT_DEVT flag, which will allocate minor numbers
> in major 259 for partitions past disk->minors.
>
> Also remove the use of disk_devt to determine devidx from md->disk.
> md->disk->first_minor is always initialized from devidx and can
> always be used to recover it.
>
> CC: Chris Ball <[email protected]>
> CC: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
> CC: Dima Zavin <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <[email protected]>
The new code looks reasonable, but wouldn't changing this be incompatible
with existing root file systems that contain static device nodes?
Arnd
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