linux-kernel - Re: Dynamic major/minor numbers (or dropping them completely)

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Date:	Fri, 3 Aug 2007 23:07:52 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Chris Snook <csnook@...hat.com>
Cc:	Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu <maxdamage@...din.ro>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Dynamic major/minor numbers (or dropping them completely)

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 05:13:51PM -0400, Chris Snook wrote:
> You're correct that dynamic major/minor numbers are sufficient for most 
> purposes, but embedded users really need their static numbers.  As for 
> ripping out major/minor numberings, that's a non-starter.  Too much of our 
> device management infrastructure is based around this numbering scheme, and 
> there isn't really anything wrong with it to justify breaking everything in 
> the change.
> 
> As a rule of thumb, if you ever find yourself wondering why we still 
> support doing statically something we can now do dynamically, the answer is 
> generally that doing it dynamically sucks for embedded.

And not only embedded.  I'm quite happy _not_ running udev on anything
I have root on, except for one test box set exactly to make sure that
patches do not break things for udev-infested boxen.
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