From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu <maxdamage@aladin.ro>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Dynamic major/minor numbers (or dropping them completely)
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 23:07:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070803220752.GU21089@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46B39A8F.5070809@redhat.com>
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 05:13:51PM -0400, Chris Snook wrote:
> You're correct that dynamic major/minor numbers are sufficient for most
> purposes, but embedded users really need their static numbers. As for
> ripping out major/minor numberings, that's a non-starter. Too much of our
> device management infrastructure is based around this numbering scheme, and
> there isn't really anything wrong with it to justify breaking everything in
> the change.
>
> As a rule of thumb, if you ever find yourself wondering why we still
> support doing statically something we can now do dynamically, the answer is
> generally that doing it dynamically sucks for embedded.
And not only embedded. I'm quite happy _not_ running udev on anything
I have root on, except for one test box set exactly to make sure that
patches do not break things for udev-infested boxen.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-03 22:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-02 17:45 Dynamic major/minor numbers (or dropping them completely) Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu
2007-08-03 21:13 ` Chris Snook
2007-08-03 22:07 ` Al Viro [this message]
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