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Message-ID: <4B29148A.70805@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:10:34 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> To: David Teigland <teigland@...hat.com> CC: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@...oscopio.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rubini@...dd.com, gregkh@...e.de Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] misc: use a proper range for minor number dynamic allocation On 12/16/2009 10:01 AM, David Teigland wrote: > > I explained here http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/11/9/379 that the dlm does not > use as many misc devices as has been implied. It starts with 3, and adds > one for each *userspace* lockspace. There are very few applications (I > know of 3) that create userspace lockspaces, and they each create about > one each. > > That said, I still intend to rework the dlm to use a single device for all > lockspaces. > Still seems to make more sense to simply move it to a major and/or a dynamic allocation. misc devices were always meant to be *one of a kind* devices, which simply didn't need anything but a single allocation. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- 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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