| commit | 4d3a8534bdbcf4843fc8ad05c9a81a964fc65237 | |
| author | Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> | |
| Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:59:53 +0000 (29 20:59 +0000) | ||
| committer | David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> | |
| Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:40:19 +0000 (25 12:40 +0000) | ||
| tree | b019c9174a67fb23159fd4211baf099bf7a2e2a6 | treesnapshot (tar.gz zip) |
| parent | b520e412faaaad35641aeedd6059179f9f1b393c | commitdiff |
mtd: Raise limit on block device minor numbers
add_mtd_blktrans_dev() imposes a maximum of 257 devices per block
translator. This was presumably meant to prevent overflow back in the
days of 8-bit minor numbers. Instead, check against MINORMASK and the
limits of the partition naming scheme.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
add_mtd_blktrans_dev() imposes a maximum of 257 devices per block
translator. This was presumably meant to prevent overflow back in the
days of 8-bit minor numbers. Instead, check against MINORMASK and the
limits of the partition naming scheme.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
| drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c | diffblobblamehistory |