[dm-devel] Re: Problem w/ CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
Tejun Heo
tj at kernel.org
Tue Sep 2 11:06:24 UTC 2008
Alan D. Brunelle wrote:
>>> (2) Device minor numbers can be quite large, and the 10-character limits
>>> in dm/lib/libdm-deptree.c are too small.
>> Would it be difficult to increase that?
>
> No, but knowing the upper bound would be helpful.
Well, dev_t is 32bits and MINORBITS is 20. So, major 12 bits, minor 20
bits, so 4 characters for major, 7 characters for minor.
--
tejun
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