From: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>
To: Rogier Stam <r_stam3108@yahoo.com>, Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [MMC Stack] Partition limitation question
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 13:01:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080405130102.08c9be93@mjolnir.drzeus.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <904538.60285.qm@web33108.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:38:04 -0700 (PDT)
Rogier Stam <r_stam3108@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had a short question about the limitation of max. 8
> partitions in the MMC stack. Before the kernel was
> limited to 256 minor numbers, but I believe this is no
> longer the case (65536 if I recall correctly). Is
> there a way around this 8 partition limitation?
>
Who in their right mind has more than 8 partitions? :)
> I understand that simply renumbering all minor numbers
> is not really a preferred situation as it would
> require everyone to recreate their device nodes.
Indeed. And some embedded systems might not be able to use 32-bit
device nodes. Russell, do you have any insight to share?
Rgds
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-- Pierre Ossman
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