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Message-ID: <20070410012754.GD1994@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 21:27:54 -0400 From: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com> To: Dave Dillow <dave@...dillows.org> Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> Subject: Re: I give up 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 -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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