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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] driver-core: devtmpfs - driver core maintained /dev tmpfs
    Hi!

    > > so just to state the obvious: this code is not needed to boot fast.
    > > It is mostly a workaround for having a bad initrd; if you don't use an
    > > initrd, or if you use an initrd that's made with the right device nodes
    > > in it already, you really just don't need this.
    > >
    > > I would much rather that you just fix your initrd... than to put this
    > > sort of thing into the kernel....
    >
    > How will you solve the dynamic device numbers? They are a complete
    > reality today.

    Maybe dynamic device numbers are bad idea to start with?

    I'd like to keep static /dev, thank you... With big enough major/minor
    space (which we have today, I believe), complexity of dynamic device
    numbers can and should be avoided.

    Plus... this patch 'hardcoded' device names. Why not 'hardcode'
    device numbers in the same way, so that static /dev keeps working?
    Namespace should be big enough...

    Pavel
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