[PATCH] Dynamically allocate partition numbers

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 12:12:18PM +0100, Matias Bjørling wrote:
> >@@ -1975,12 +1947,13 @@ static struct nvme_ns *nvme_alloc_ns(struct nvme_dev *dev, unsigned nsid,
> >  		blk_queue_max_hw_sectors(ns->queue, dev->max_hw_sectors);
> >
> >  	disk->major = nvme_major;
> >-	disk->minors = NVME_MINORS;
> >-	disk->first_minor = NVME_MINORS * nvme_get_ns_idx();
> >+	disk->minors = 0;
> 
> The above line can be removed.

Hm, yeah, good point, alloc_disk() initialises ->minors, and always has,
so we didn't need to initialise it before either.  I'll take that line
out before committing.

> Tested and works.

I'll add your tested-by.  I tested it myself with about 80 partitions.