From bcce3de1be61e424deef35d1e86e86a35c4b6e65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:47:22 +0900 Subject: block: implement extended dev numbers Implement extended device numbers. A block driver can tell block layer that it wants to use extended device numbers. After the usual minor space is used up, block layer automatically allocates devt's from EXT_BLOCK_MAJOR. Currently only one major number is allocated for this but as the allocation is strictly on-demand, ~1mil minor space under it should suffice unless the system actually has more than ~1mil partitions and if that ever happens adding more majors to the extended devt area is easy. Due to internal implementation issues, the first partition can't be allocated on the extended area. In other words, genhd->minors should at least be 1. This limitation will be lifted by later changes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- include/linux/major.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/major.h') diff --git a/include/linux/major.h b/include/linux/major.h index 53d5fafd85c..88249452b93 100644 --- a/include/linux/major.h +++ b/include/linux/major.h @@ -170,4 +170,6 @@ #define VIOTAPE_MAJOR 230 +#define BLOCK_EXT_MAJOR 259 + #endif -- cgit v1.2.3