Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants | Date | Thu, 17 May 2001 01:24:24 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Yes, it's broken if someone writes a cabbage dicer driver and uses > "cd" as the leaf node name for devfs. > > Yes, it's broken if someone writes a cabbage dicer driver and uses > the same major as the IDE CD-ROM or SCSI CD-ROM drivers.
The difference is one is a kernel interface magic cookie (be it a variable length one with a 7bit ascii mapping that happens to relate to it, or a short constnt) the other is user policy and has no business being set in a spec - 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/
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