Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 14 May 2001 17:34:44 -0600 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants |
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Andi Kleen writes: > 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.
You can do that with devfs. It provides all this information. If you really don't want to mount devfs over /dev, then mount it elsewhere and just use it as an information source to populate /dev. No need to add more code to the kernel to do it another way.
Regards,
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