linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] stat: don't fail if the major number is >= 256

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Date:   Mon, 11 Apr 2022 22:52:55 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] stat: don't fail if the major number is >= 256

On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 07:47:44PM -1000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Considering that BLOCK_EXT_MAJOR has been 259 since 2008, and this is
> the first time anybody has hit this, I don't think there's much reason
> to change that major number when the whole error case seems to have
> been largely a mistake to begin with.

Yeah.  If Mikulas still has a problem he could just patch
BLOCK_EXT_MAJOR locally.