On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 10:43:01AM -0600, Ross Zwisler wrote: > > Yes, if CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT isn't set that code doesn't work at all. > > I can't figure out a use case that breaks when using dynamically allocated > minors without CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT. The patch that I've been testing > against is at the bottom of this mail. > > Here are the minors that I get when creating a bunch of partitions using the > current code with PMEM_MINORS=16, with CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT turned off: FYI, your patch below works fine for me, but the original one certainly didn't. One big difference was that it also removed the register_blkdev call and thus assigning a major number. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html