Re: Fwd: 32bit dev_t

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:21:07AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:

On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 22:51, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

quoted

Currently it's compiled in, and the trivial change to make it use
register_blkdev with a 0 major argument until all globally unused majors
are gone is left to the reader..

Which leaves the non trivial change of figuring out a usable security
model when doing that. I've yet to see one

That's why I didn't implement it.  Ask the SuSE folks, they already ship
the dynamic majors for sd hack in their 2.4-based tree.