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To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: HEADSUP: linux dev_t emulation 
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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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