Re: regarding major number of block extended devt

[H. Peter Anvin]

Tejun Heo wrote:
> > (a) we can't do anything about, but (b) we can, by introducing a
> > partition number attribute in sysfs.
>
> Yeah, that would certainly be a nice addition.  Also, if partitions
> are made proper classes, they'll be easily enumerable by
> /sys/block/*/partitions/*.
>
> Jens, what do you think?

Note that addition /partitions/ is somewhat unlikely to be useful, since 
existing code will have to search through random crap in sysfs to look 
for the partition directories anyway.

	-hpa
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