Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 May 2001 18:48:39 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants |
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On Mon, 14 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Would you mind demonstrating such wonder? Old devices are still there, > > AFAICS. Ext2 (reiserfs, devfs, abortion-of-your-choice-fs) still has > > the ability to create device nodes for them. > > Except that Linus wont hand out major numbers, which means I can't even boot > simply off such a device. I bet the vendors in question dont think the sun > shines out of linus backside any more.
Not really. Special-casing for mounting root is trivially solvable. BTDT, and you've reviewed the patch.
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