From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932396AbXDJB2K (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 21:28:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932404AbXDJB2K (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 21:28:10 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:58334 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932396AbXDJB2J (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 21:28:09 -0400 Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 21:27:54 -0400 From: Dave Jones To: Dave Dillow Cc: Jan Engelhardt , Gene Heskett , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: I give up Message-ID: <20070410012754.GD1994@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Dave Dillow , Jan Engelhardt , Gene Heskett , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , Jeff Garzik References: <200704091007.58535.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <461A71FA.40900@zytor.com> <200704091538.44253.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <1176157330.4767.12.camel@dillow.idleaire.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1176157330.4767.12.camel@dillow.idleaire.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 06:22:10PM -0400, Dave Dillow wrote: > On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 23:35 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Apr 9 2007 15:38, Gene Heskett wrote: > > >On Monday 09 April 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > >>Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > >>> dm is on 254 for me.. in opensuse with a 2.6.20 that is. I wonder why > > >>> it even moves around. However, even then, those who use udev and > > >>> device names rather than (major,minor) tuples should not have any > > >>> problem. > > >> > > >>It moves around because someone at some point thought it was a great > > >>idea to assign dynamic majors to core functionality. > > >> > > >What were they smoking, I want some of that! > > > > Do you actually use udev? > > udev doesn't help the problem he is having (and he is using it, since he > is using Fedora). However, it also doesn't explain what the point is of backing up /dev when it's dynamically created. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk