Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Sep 2002 20:58:09 -0700 | From | David Brownell <> | Subject | Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: 2.5.26 hotplug failure |
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Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 07:55:22PM -0700, David Brownell wrote: > >>How about a facility to create the character (or block?) special file >>node right there in the driverfs directory? Optional of course. > > > No, Linus has stated that this is not ok to do. See the lkml archives > for the whole discussion about this.
I suspected that'd be the case. Some pointer into the archives would be good, though I'd suspect the basic summary is that it'd be too much like devfs that way. Did the same statement apply to adding some file that wasn't a device special file? That kind of solution moves in the "no majors/minors" direction, which I thought was the general goal. Leaves a naming policy debate, but one that ought to be more managable (say, with devlabel).
Though I guess my original reaction still stands then: I don't much want to care about major/minor numbers, so why not just leave them out in favor of whatever better solution is the goal? Save everyone the intermediate steps!
- Dave
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