On Monday 09 April 2007, Dave Jones wrote: >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
I'm glad you mentioned that, I was, leftovers from RH7.3 probably. :( -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Windows Tip of the Day: Add DEVICE=FNGRCROS.SYS to your CONFIG.SYS file. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
