Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

Alan Cox
2001-05-17T00:29:22Z

> Yes, it's broken if someone writes a cabbage dicer driver and uses
> "cd" as the leaf node name for devfs.
>
> Yes, it's broken if someone writes a cabbage dicer driver and uses
> the same major as the IDE CD-ROM or SCSI CD-ROM drivers.

The difference is one is a kernel interface magic cookie (be it a variable
length one with a 7bit ascii mapping that happens to relate to it, or a
short constnt) the other is user policy and has no business being set in a
spec