From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove DEVFS_FL_AUTO_DEVNUM
Date: 2 Mar 2003 12:16:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b3tor7$uqu$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030301190724.B1900@lst.de
Followup to: <20030301190724.B1900@lst.de>
By author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Rationale: while dynamic major/minors are a good idea, devfs is the
> wrong layer to do it because all code relying on it would break with
> out devfs.
>
Your first clause here is a *highly* questionable statement...
-hpa
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-01 18:07 [PATCH] remove DEVFS_FL_AUTO_DEVNUM Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-01 18:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-02 20:16 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2003-03-02 22:30 ` Neil Brown
2003-03-02 22:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2003-03-06 1:36 Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-10 19:52 Christoph Hellwig
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