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    [PATCH] remove MAX_BLKDEV from genhd.c · 7bc4777d
    Andrew Morton authored
    Patch from Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
    
    A patch for genhd.c:
    
    - removed outdated comments
    - removed MAX_BLKDEV
    
    In genhd.c the variable MAX_BLKDEV was only the size of a hash
    table, so I made it MAX_PROBE_HASH. It can be 1, or 23, or 256, or
    whatever one wants.
    
    Note that the current setup requires that every device number
    in a given range is mapped by dev_to_index() to the same index
    in the hash table, so this routine will have to be adapted in
    case one wants to register multimajor ranges.
    
    Discussion is possible about whether struct blk_probe needs
    a dev_t or a kdev_t, but I left things this time.
    
    If a range can end at precisely the end of [k]dev_t space,
    the old code was wrong since (p->dev + p->range) would be 0.
    That is why "p->dev + p->range <= dev" was replaced by
    "p->dev + p->range - 1 < dev".
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