On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 08:41:52AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Mon, Apr 29 2013, Philippe De Muyter wrote: > > > > so sda is 8,0 and sdb is 8,16 > > > > and if, while discovering partitions of /dev/sda, I try to make a > > partition 16 or higher, it is silently discarded by 'put_partition'. > > > > Is that changed ? > > That's a set limitation of sd, it does not apply to other devices. The > legacy IDE code used 64 for max partitions, for instance. So Karel is > right, you should not make any assumptions about the max number of > partitions, it is driver dependent.
I replaced that by state->limit in the v2 series. Philippe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
