From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 05:59:38 +0000 Subject: Re: udev and devfs - The final word Message-Id: <20040103055938.GD5306@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <20031231002942.GB2875@kroah.com> <20040101011855.GA13628@hh.idb.hist.no> In-Reply-To: <20040101011855.GA13628@hh.idb.hist.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Helge Hafting Cc: linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 02:18:55AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 04:29:42PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > > 2) We are (well, were) running out of major and minor numbers for > > devices. > > devfs tried to fix this one by _getting rid_ of those numbers. > Seriously - what are they needed for? But devfs failed in this. The devfs kernel interface still requires a major/minor number to create device nodes. Hopefully I can work on fixing this up in 2.7. thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id78&alloc_id371&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262705AbUACF7p (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2004 00:59:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265935AbUACF7p (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2004 00:59:45 -0500 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([65.200.24.183]:6594 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262705AbUACF7n (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2004 00:59:43 -0500 Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 21:59:38 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Helge Hafting Cc: linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: udev and devfs - The final word Message-ID: <20040103055938.GD5306@kroah.com> References: <20031231002942.GB2875@kroah.com> <20040101011855.GA13628@hh.idb.hist.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040101011855.GA13628@hh.idb.hist.no> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 02:18:55AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 04:29:42PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > > 2) We are (well, were) running out of major and minor numbers for > > devices. > > devfs tried to fix this one by _getting rid_ of those numbers. > Seriously - what are they needed for? But devfs failed in this. The devfs kernel interface still requires a major/minor number to create device nodes. Hopefully I can work on fixing this up in 2.7. thanks, greg k-h