Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

Alexander Viro
2001-05-14T22:49:06Z

On Mon, 14 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> > Would you mind demonstrating such wonder? Old devices are still there,
> > AFAICS. Ext2 (reiserfs, devfs, abortion-of-your-choice-fs) still has
> > the ability to create device nodes for them.
>
> Except that Linus wont hand out major numbers, which means I can't even boot
> simply off such a device. I bet the vendors in question dont think the sun
> shines out of linus backside any more.

Not really. Special-casing for mounting root is trivially solvable. BTDT,
and you've reviewed the patch.