Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Nov 2004 22:45:24 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Suspend 2 merge: 9/51: init/* changes. |
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Hi!
> > And if you really want to make it changeable, pass major:minor from userland; once > > userland is running getting them is easy. > > Yes, but that's also far uglier, and who thinks in terms of major and > minor numbers anyway? I think of my harddrive as /dev/sda, not 08:xx. > The parsing accepts majors and minors, of course, but shouldn't we make > these things easier to do, not harder? (Would we insist on using majors > and minors for root=?).
Kernel interface is not supposed to be "easy". root= has exception, that's init code, and you can't easily ls -al /dev at that point. If you want easy interface, create userland program that looks up minor/major in /dev/ and uses them. Pavel -- People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers... ...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl! - 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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