Messages in this thread | | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | Subject | Re: drivers/block/ub.c | Date | Mon, 28 Jun 2004 18:42:28 +0200 |
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Am Montag, 28. Juni 2004 17:40 schrieb Alan Stern: > Or maybe I've misunderstood completely, not just partially. In any case, > are you sure you will want to do this? The directive for not tracking > serial numbers or trying in some other way to make devices appear to be > persistent across reconnects came directly from Linus.
IIRC he banned reconnecting device nodes in use. Reusing the number is legal. In fact in a finite number space there's always a chance that the number will have to be reused.
Regards Oliver
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