New device drivers don't see beyond 15 partitions in fc7

[Lamont Peterson]

On Saturday 30 December 2006 04:55pm, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 08:32:53AM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > upgrade to FC-7 flawlessly, if /dev/hdx accomodated more then 15
> > partitions, then so should the new /dev/sdx when it becomes the new
> > device for this disk.
>
> Thats something you need to take upstream. I would also like to see it
> happen but previous patches to allow sparse minor numbers have always been
> vetoed by some of the fs maintainers.

Since 2.6 and the 32-bit device ID space?
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