linux-kernel - Re: I give up

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Date:	Mon, 09 Apr 2007 23:47:57 -0400
From:	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, Dave Dillow <dave@...dillows.org>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Subject: Re: I give up

On Monday 09 April 2007, Dave Jones wrote:
>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

I'm glad you mentioned that, I was, leftovers from RH7.3 probably. :(

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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