From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752206AbYDELBo (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Apr 2008 07:01:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751466AbYDELBf (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Apr 2008 07:01:35 -0400 Received: from gateway.drzeus.cx ([85.8.24.16]:33962 "EHLO smtp.drzeus.cx" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751476AbYDELBf (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Apr 2008 07:01:35 -0400 Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 13:01:02 +0200 From: Pierre Ossman To: Rogier Stam , Russell King Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [MMC Stack] Partition limitation question Message-ID: <20080405130102.08c9be93@mjolnir.drzeus.cx> In-Reply-To: <904538.60285.qm@web33108.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <904538.60285.qm@web33108.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.9; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:38:04 -0700 (PDT) Rogier Stam 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 -- -- Pierre Ossman Linux kernel, MMC maintainer http://www.kernel.org PulseAudio, core developer http://pulseaudio.org rdesktop, core developer http://www.rdesktop.org