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From: Rogier Stam
Subject: [MMC Stack] Partition limitation question
Date: Friday, March 21, 2008 - 4:38 am

Hi,

I had a short question about the limitation of max. 8
partitions in the MMC stack. Before the kernel was
limited to 256 minor numbers, but I believe this is no
longer the case (65536 if I recall correctly). Is
there a way around this 8 partition limitation?

I understand that simply renumbering all minor numbers
is not really a preferred situation as it would
require everyone to recreate their device nodes.

Regards,

Rogier


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From: Pierre Ossman
Subject: Re: [MMC Stack] Partition limitation question
Date: Saturday, April 5, 2008 - 4:01 am

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:38:04 -0700 (PDT)


Indeed. And some embedded systems might not be able to use 32-bit
device nodes. Russell, do you have any insight to share?

Rgds

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