From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 15:06:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 15:06:38 -0500 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:18700 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 15:06:36 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove DEVFS_FL_AUTO_DEVNUM Date: 2 Mar 2003 12:16:39 -0800 Organization: Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara CA Message-ID: References: <20030301190724.B1900@lst.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Disclaimer: Not speaking for Transmeta in any way, shape, or form. Copyright: Copyright 2003 H. Peter Anvin - All Rights Reserved Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Followup to: <20030301190724.B1900@lst.de> By author: Christoph Hellwig In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Rationale: while dynamic major/minors are a good idea, devfs is the > wrong layer to do it because all code relying on it would break with > out devfs. > Your first clause here is a *highly* questionable statement... -hpa -- at work, in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." Architectures needed: cris ia64 m68k mips64 ppc ppc64 s390 s390x sh v850 x86-64