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Message-ID: <4F0D3543.7020401@msgid.tls.msk.ru>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:07:47 +0400
From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
CC: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vhost-net: add module alias
On 11.01.2012 08:54, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> By adding the a module alias, programs (or users) won't have to explicitly
> call modprobe. Vhost-net will always be available if built into the kernel.
> It does require assigning a permanent minor number for depmod to work.
> Choose one next to TUN since this driver is related to it.
Why do you think a statically-allocated device number will do any good
at all? Static /dev is gone almost completely, at least on the systems
where whole virt stuff makes any sense, so you don't have pre-created
vhost-net device anymore, and hence this allocation makes no sense.
Just IMHO anyway.
Thanks,
/mjt
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