Re: udev and devfs - The final word

viro
2004-01-03T21:18:43Z

On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 04:22:41PM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 09:59:38PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 02:18:55AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 04:29:42PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > >
> > > > 2) We are (well, were) running out of major and minor numbers for
> > > > devices.
> > >
> > > devfs tried to fix this one by _getting rid_ of those numbers.
> > > Seriously - what are they needed for?
> >
> > But devfs failed in this. The devfs kernel interface still requires a
> > major/minor number to create device nodes.
> >
> Yes. The numbers went unused in the common case of opening a device by name though.

No, they were not. RTFS, please.