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Subject: Minor Numbers
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 10:40:41 -0500
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Greetings,

I'm curious as to the status of minor number extension
in the 2.5 kernel series.  Currently my 2.4 kernel uses
an 8-bit minor number; how is the development going to
extend this to 16 or even 32 bits?

Cheers,

Sam Hopkins
sah@coraid.com