linux-kernel - Re: I give up

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Date:	Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:03:54 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
CC:	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Subject: Re: I give up

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.

It stays put at 254 for you since that's the highest (and thus 
first-used) dynamic major.

	-hpa
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