Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants | From | John Fremlin <> | Date | 15 May 2001 16:51:58 +0100 |
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:
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> Nobody really uses it because it would require you to add a line or > two to your init scripts to pick up the major number from > /proc/devices, and that's obviously too hard. Much better to just > hardcode randome numbers, right?
And thereby avoid using procfs. Hardcoding is the way the BSDs seem to be going.
Clueless suggestion: I suppose you could allocate numbers on kernel build or something.
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