On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 06:34:16AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > 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 :) Or better yet, just turn all char major allocations into dynamic, which would be really good for test systems. I thought someone proposed patches for that a long time ago, but I can't find them anymore. That would be the simplest solution here. thnaks, greg k-h
