number mtd partitions on 16 limits?

[Vitaly Wool]

Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 11:06 +0100, hermes33 at freenet.de wrote:
>   
>> I need more than 16 mtd partitions on a omap1610 (arm) with kernel 2.4.20. 
>> I create 16 partitions. All ok, 'cat /proc/mtd' show mtd0 to mtd15. 
>> I create 17 partitions. 'cat /proc/mtd' show only mtd0 to mtd15. 
>> It seems to give a limit with 16 partitions. 
>> Where can I change that? can someone help me?
>>     
>
> This is because of
> #define MAX_MTD_DEVICES 16
> at include/linux/mtd/mtd.h. Increase this macro. I guess it is harmless
> to make it 32, feel free to send a patch.
>
>   
I would however like to add that if you have more than 16 partitions in 
your system, you're likely to have problems with your design and not 
with MTD.

Vitaly