Re: udev and devfs - The final word

viro
2004-01-06T00:59:50Z

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 03:32:03PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> dev_t lbt_devno()
> {
> return nr++;
> }
>
> since the numbers do have to be unique "per boot". They just shouldn't be
> considered "stable" _nor_ "meaningful".

Cute. There's a little issue of, say it, meaningful relationship between
sda and sda4, completely lost that way. And _that_ has nothing to do with
device enumeration.