Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants | Date | Tue, 15 May 2001 10:28:52 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
| |
> do with any specific drivers (which is why I'd be perfecly ok with still > adding a "disk" major number, but which is why I do NOT want to have Peter > give out "the random number of today" to various stupid device drivers).
For block devices that seems to work well. char devices are harder and I'd rather issue the occasional new major than have people registering automatic cabbage slicers as a tty or a disk because they cant get a device id.
Alan
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
|  |