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mtd: Raise limit on block device minor numbers
authorBen Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:59:53 +0000 (20:59 +0000)
committerDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:40:19 +0000 (12:40 +0000)
commit4d3a8534bdbcf4843fc8ad05c9a81a964fc65237
treeb019c9174a67fb23159fd4211baf099bf7a2e2a6tree | snapshot
parentb520e412faaaad35641aeedd6059179f9f1b393ccommit | diff
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>
drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c diff | blob | history
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