linux-kernel - Re: I give up

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0704092334410.22295@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
Date:	Mon, 9 Apr 2007 23:35:14 +0200 (MEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Subject: Re: I give up


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?



Jan
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