Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 2 Jan 2004 21:59:38 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: udev and devfs - The final word |
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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.
Hopefully I can work on fixing this up in 2.7.
thanks,
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