Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 14 May 2001 13:29:51 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants |
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On Mon, 14 May 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Note also that persistence of permissions and hardcoded in-kernel naming > is a problem throughout proc... It's not unique to in-driver > filesystems.
Also note how a 32-bit (or 64-bit) dev_t does NOT make it any easier to manage permissions or anything like that anyway. Look at the current mess /dev is. Imagine it an order of magnitude worse.
Big device numbers are _not_ a solution. I will accept a 32-bit one, but no more, and I will _not_ accept a "manage by hand" approach any more. The time has long since come to say "No". Which I've done. If you can't make it manage the thing automatically with a script, you won't get a hardcoded major device number just because you're lazy.
End of discussion.
Linus
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