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Date:      Fri, 11 Mar 2005 07:21:56 +0100
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADSUP: linux dev_t emulation 
Message-ID:  <7576.1110522116@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 Mar 2005 22:26:52 GMT." <20050310222652.GA31757@infradead.org> 

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In message <20050310222652.GA31757@infradead.org>, Christoph Hellwig writes:
>On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 10:11:44PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> 
>> Linux has only 8 bit major + 8 bit minor dev_t.
>
>Not true anymore.  Current Linux has 12bit major and 20bit minor.

Well, that doesn't change the situation: the linuxolator has a task
to learn.

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