Re: [PATCH] add sysfs mem device support [2/4]

[Martin Schlemmer <azarah@nosferatu.za.org>]

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On Fri, 2003-12-26 at 18:54, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 04:19:49PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 09:41:28PM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> > > So maybe suggest an solution rather than shooting one down all the
> > > time (which do seem logical, and is only apposed by one person currently
> > > - namely you =).
> > 
> > My suggestion is to just use MAKEDEV asis for devices that are static
> > like the memdevices.  Dynamic solutions do not buy us anything for those.
> 
>  They do buy when using tmpfs for /dev.

And it will anyhow require a full evaluation of MAKEDEV (debian's one
anyhow), as it really put a lot of extra crap in.  With Greg's patches I
only need to worry about /dev/core, /dev/std{in,out,err} and alsa.  The
question is now also how do you 'qualify' an device to have sysfs
support.  Sure some is static like /dev/null, but over here /dev/hda is
pretty static as well =)


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Martin Schlemmer

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