Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

Alan Cox
2001-05-15T09:01:41Z

> The fact that it already exists, and has existed for 5+ years, but that
> nobody really uses it?
>
> Nobody really uses it because it would require you to add a line or two to
> your init scripts to pick up the major number from /proc/devices, and
> that's obviously too hard. Much better to just hardcode randome numbers,
> right?

modprobe ?