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. - 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/
