On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 10:29:20PM -0600, Logan Gunthorpe wrote: > > > On 12/06/17 10:18 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > What test causes so many major numbers to be allocated? Is this > > in-kernel test code? Do you really have a system that requires so many > > different drivers that all want a dynamic char major? > > This is a 0day kernel robot test. I'm not sure the motivations of its > design but it seems to be similar to an allyesconfig. So all/most > modules are compiled in and allocating their char device regions on boot > of a qemu instance. Ah, that makes sense. Well, someone can always work on expanding the range of dynamic char major numbers if they are running out of them on a real system, I'll gladly take patches for that :) thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
