Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:38:44 -0400 | From | Gene Heskett <> | Subject | Re: I give up |
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On Monday 09 April 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> dm is on 254 for me.. in opensuse with a 2.6.20 that is. I wonder why >> it even moves around. However, even then, those who use udev and >> device names rather than (major,minor) tuples should not have any >> problem. > >It moves around because someone at some point thought it was a great >idea to assign dynamic majors to core functionality. > What were they smoking, I want some of that!
>It stays put at 254 for you since that's the highest (and thus >first-used) dynamic major. > > -hpa
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) <Culus> OH MY GOD NOT A RANDOM QUOTE GENERATOR <netgod> surely you didnt think that was static? how lame would that be? :-) - 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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