Commit f2257a56 authored Jul 14, 2011 by Andreas Gruenbacher Committed by Philipp Reisner Nov 08, 2012

drbd: Allow to create devices with a minor number > minor_count



The minor_count module/kernel parameter serves to scale the size of drbd's
internal memory pool, but it is no longer a limit for the number of minors or
the minor number.  (Minor numbers can be arbitrarily high within the allowed
limit of 2^20.)

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>

parent 0317d9ec

drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c

+1 −2

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		@@ -3034,8 +3034,7 @@ int drbd_adm_add_minor(struct sk_buff skb, struct genl_info info)
		if (retcode != NO_ERROR)
		goto out;

		/* FIXME drop minor_count parameter, limit to MINORMASK */
		if (dh->minor >= minor_count) {
		if (dh->minor > MINORMASK) {
		drbd_msg_put_info("requested minor out of range");
		retcode = ERR_INVALID_REQUEST;
		goto out;