Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Nov 2004 22:51:10 -0800 | From | Johannes Erdfelt <> | Subject | Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH][RFC/v1][11/12] Add InfiniBand Documentation files |
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On Mon, Nov 22, 2004, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 03:30:47PM -0800, Johannes Erdfelt wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 22, 2004, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: > > > People who do not use udev will not like you. > > > > I don't quite understand this. Given things like udev, wouldn't dynamic > > majors work just like having a static major number? > > Yes, but people who do not use udev, will have a hard time creating the > device nodes by hand every time.
Ok, I can understand that for now.
Is the eventual plan to move to dynamic majors for all devices?
JE
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