On Thu, 2015-10-22 at 10:00 -0700, John Stultz wrote: > From: Colin Cross <ccross@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > It is quite common for Android devices to utilize more > then 8 partitions on internal eMMC storage. > > The vanilla kernel can support this via > CONFIG_MMC_BLOCK_MINORS, however that solution caps the > system to 256 minors total, which limits the number of > mmc cards the system can support. [...] This commit was intended to allow support for 256 cards with any number of partitions: commit a26eba614afff0e39594101bcb73014a9a22fb33 Author: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Nov 6 03:35:09 2014 +0000 mmc: block: Increase max_devices I don't think the new patch is sufficient or necessary to increase the limit further. Do you have a compatibility requirement to retain the numbering of the first 7 partitions? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Q. Which is the greater problem in the world today, ignorance or apathy? A. I don't know and I couldn't care less.
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