Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 4 Sep 2001 14:35:25 -0600 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: DEVFS_FL_AUTO_DEVNUM on block devices |
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taral@taral.net writes: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 02:13:34PM -0600, Richard Gooch wrote: > > taral@taral.net writes: > > > > > > --HlL+5n6rz5pIUxbD > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > Content-Disposition: inline > > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > > Please fix your mailer to not send this junk. > > It's not junk, it's PGP/MIME.
"One man's junk is another man's treasure" :-)
> But I disabled it for you.
Thanks. It just gets in the way. And I'm tired of what I consider pollution on the 'net. With horror I consider MIME+HTML+vcard. Next I suppose we'll have M$ "active email" which requires a full virtual machine in which to execute. <shudder>
> > You can use the devfs_alloc_major() function to grab a major number > > that won't conflict with another driver. Then use that major when > > calling devfs_register(). > > Sounds good to me. It might be wise, however, to disable use of > DEVFS_FL_AUTO_DEVNUM in devfs_register with block devices, since > it's not incredibly useful to have two different drivers sharing a > major number.
That's a policy decision, and I don't want to make that. Also consider that with the block I/O rewrite planned for 2.5, we'll do away with these abominable arrays, and thus DEVFS_FL_AUTO_DEVNUM makes plenty of sense even for block devices. It will in fact be the preferred way of doing things (at least for devfs).
Regards,
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