From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Johannes Erdfelt <johannes@erdfelt.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org
Subject: Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH][RFC/v1][11/12] Add InfiniBand Documentation files
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 22:45:08 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041123064508.GC22493@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041122233047.GH27658@sventech.com>
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 03:30:47PM -0800, Johannes Erdfelt wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2004, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 02:58:45PM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
> > > Greg> Oh, have you asked for a real major number to be reserved
> > > Greg> for umad?
> > >
> > > No, I think we're fine with a dynamic major. Is there any reason to
> > > want a real major?
> >
> > 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.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-23 6:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2004-11-22 15:13 ` [PATCH][RFC/v1][6/12] IPoIB IPv4 multicast Roland Dreier
2004-11-22 15:13 ` [PATCH][RFC/v1][7/12] IPoIB IPv6 support Roland Dreier
2004-11-22 15:13 ` Roland Dreier
2004-11-22 15:14 ` [PATCH][RFC/v1][8/12] Add IPoIB (IP-over-InfiniBand) driver Roland Dreier
2004-11-22 15:14 ` *****SPAM***** " Roland Dreier
2004-11-22 15:14 ` [PATCH][RFC/v1][9/12] Add InfiniBand userspace MAD support Roland Dreier
2004-11-22 15:14 ` [PATCH][RFC/v1][10/12] Document InfiniBand ioctl use Roland Dreier
2004-11-22 15:14 ` [PATCH][RFC/v1][11/12] Add InfiniBand Documentation files Roland Dreier
2004-11-22 15:14 ` [PATCH][RFC/v1][12/12] InfiniBand MAINTAINERS entry Roland Dreier
2004-11-22 15:31 ` [PATCH][RFC/v1][11/12] Add InfiniBand Documentation files Christoph Hellwig
2004-11-22 15:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-11-22 15:41 ` Roland Dreier
2004-11-22 15:41 ` Roland Dreier
2004-11-23 8:49 ` [openib-general] " Eric W. Biederman
2004-11-23 8:49 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-11-22 22:53 ` Greg KH
2004-11-22 22:58 ` Roland Dreier
2004-11-22 23:05 ` Greg KH
2004-11-22 23:21 ` Roland Dreier
2004-11-22 23:30 ` [openib-general] " Johannes Erdfelt
2004-11-23 6:45 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-11-23 6:51 ` Johannes Erdfelt
2004-11-23 7:38 ` Greg KH
2004-11-22 22:50 ` [PATCH][RFC/v1][9/12] Add InfiniBand userspace MAD support Greg KH
2004-11-22 23:05 ` Roland Dreier
2004-11-23 7:45 ` Greg KH
2004-11-23 15:04 ` Roland Dreier
2004-11-23 2:08 ` Roland Dreier
2004-11-23 6:30 ` Greg KH
2004-11-23 6:45 ` Roland Dreier
2004-11-23 7:43 ` Greg KH
2004-11-23 15:06 ` Roland Dreier
2004-11-23 15:17 ` Greg KH
2004-11-22 19:40 ` [PATCH][RFC/v1][8/12] Add IPoIB (IP-over-InfiniBand) driver Sam Ravnborg
2004-11-22 19:40 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-11-22 22:34 ` Greg KH
2004-11-22 22:34 ` Greg KH
2004-11-22 23:18 ` Roland Dreier
2004-11-22 23:18 ` Roland Dreier
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