Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 3 Jan 2004 21:18:37 +0000 | From | viro@parcelfa ... | Subject | Re: udev and devfs - The final word |
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On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 04:22:41PM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 09:59:38PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 02:18:55AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 04:29:42PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > > > > 2) We are (well, were) running out of major and minor numbers for > > > > devices. > > > > > > devfs tried to fix this one by _getting rid_ of those numbers. > > > Seriously - what are they needed for? > > > > But devfs failed in this. The devfs kernel interface still requires a > > major/minor number to create device nodes. > > > Yes. The numbers went unused in the common case of opening a device by name though.
No, they were not. RTFS, please. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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