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

[Alan Cox]

On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 10:34:00PM -0700, Lamont Peterson wrote:
> > 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?

Yes