On Saturday 23 April 2011, John Stultz wrote: > From: Colin Cross <ccross@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > 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 <cjb@xxxxxxxxxx> > CC: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> > CC: Dima Zavin <dima@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> The new code looks reasonable, but wouldn't changing this be incompatible with existing root file systems that contain static device nodes? Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-mmc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
