Ingo Oeser wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 October 2003 01:12, Mike Waychison wrote:
> 
>>The problem still remains in 2.6 that we limit the count to 256.  I've
>>attached a quick patch that I've compiled and tested.  I don't know if
>>there is a better way to handle dynamic assignment of minors (haven't
>>kept up to date in that realm), but if there is, then we should probably
>>  use it instead.
> 
> 
> 
> In your patch you allocate inside the spinlock.
> 
> I would suggest to do sth. like the following:
> 

Better yet..  we could move it into an __init section that will panic if 
the allocation fails (this should be the desired behaviour..).  This way 
we don't even have to grab the lock either.

Mike Waychison