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Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 13:01:02 +0200 From: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@...eus.cx> To: Rogier Stam <r_stam3108@...oo.com>, Russell King <rmk@....linux.org.uk> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [MMC Stack] Partition limitation question On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:38:04 -0700 (PDT) Rogier Stam <r_stam3108@...oo.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 -- -- Pierre Ossman Linux kernel, MMC maintainer http://www.kernel.org PulseAudio, core developer http://pulseaudio.org rdesktop, core developer http://www.rdesktop.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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