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Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo authored
drawbacks. First of all, the range for dynamic numbers include some statically allocated numbers. It goes from 63 to 0, and we have numbers in the range from 1 to 15 already allocated. Although, it gives priority to the higher and not allocated numbers, we may end up in a situation where we must reject registering a driver which got a static number because a driver got its number with dynamic allocation. Considering fs/dlm/user.c allocates as many misc devices as lockspaces are created, and that we have more than 50 users around, it's not unreasonable to reach that situation. The proposed solution uses the not yet reserved range from 64 to 127. If more devices are needed, we may push 64 to 16. Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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