Re: [PATCH] register_blkdev [LWN.net]

From:		Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:		Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject:		Re: [PATCH] register_blkdev
Date:		08 Mar 2003 15:11:42 +0000
Cc:		Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>, hch@infradead.org, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>

On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 00:50, Greg KH wrote:
> > So we need a maxminors flag in the register for 2.6 I guess ?
> 
> Do you mean to only increase the number of majors, and not minors then?

How about an interface that looks like

	register_chr_device(blah. blah, MY_MAX_MINOR);

and we can delete all the if < 0 || >= MAX return logic from the drivers
as we go. Right now each driver checks and several in the past had off 
by one errors.


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