From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] integrate driverfs and devfs (2.5.28)
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 16:19:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020805231914.GF29396@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200208051225.g75CP4v316564@pimout4-ext.prodigy.net>
On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 02:26:35AM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
>
> So what's root_dev_names in init/do_mounts.c? If a default naming policy is
> so unacceptably evil, is that being removed in 2.5 and everybody being told
> to use major/minor for the root device?
Yes. Well no. We can't break backwards compatibility with userspace
like this. So things like root device naming will have to live on for a
while.
> By the way, why doesn't imposing consistent predefined major/minor numbers
> (0x0301 instead of "hda1") count as "policy"? I'm honestly curious...
It does. I want to get rid of it too :) But that's still a ways away...
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-05 23:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-28 21:03 [PATCH] integrate driverfs and devfs (2.5.28) Adam Belay
2002-07-29 13:47 ` Adam Belay
2002-07-29 19:33 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-07-29 16:47 ` Adam Belay
2002-07-29 22:21 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-07-29 23:25 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-07-30 16:32 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-07-30 14:02 ` Adam Belay
2002-08-05 6:26 ` Rob Landley
2002-08-05 23:19 ` Greg KH [this message]
2002-08-05 23:51 ` Policy vs API (was Re: [PATCH] integrate driverfs and devfs (2.5.28)) Rob Landley
2002-08-06 16:34 ` Greg KH
2002-08-06 17:43 ` Patrick Mochel
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