Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

Alan Cox
2001-05-14T22:34:55Z

> 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.