Re: udev and devfs - The final word

Greg KH
2004-01-04T09:05:57Z

On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 01:26:44AM -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
> > Moral: keep the identifier creation framework flexible enough so that you
> > can chose device-specific means to produce useful identifiers. (And, use
> > long identifiers, as they're less likely to be duplicated in general.)
>
> Seems to be what udev is for. When we do go to random major and minor
> numbers, maybe it would be useful to let udev request specific ones? (Just a
> thought...)

Let udev request specific what? Major/minor numbers? Huh? I think you
are very confused here...

thanks,

greg k-h