Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 14 May 2001 23:09:54 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants |
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On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:29:51PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > 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.
As far as I can see it just needs a /proc/devices that also outputs minor ranges with names, and a small program similar to scsidev to generate nodes in /dev based on that on the fly on early bootup.
Is that what you have in mind?
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