Followup to: <20030421193546.A10287@infradead.org>
By author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Umm, no. You're far to major/minor biased to realized live get a lot
> sipler for use if we don't do any complicated mapping of old dev_t
> to the larger dev_t. With the proper ranges we can just map it
> numerically 1:1 to the new dev_t. Yes, that means it's all in one
> new "major". But who cares?
>
Everyone who has to fix up the resulting mess. There is such a thing
as backwards compatibility, you know, and it's usually a good thing.
-hpa
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