On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 10:26:12AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > Why not? "closed" systems, like Android and other embedded systems, > have "assigned" uid and gid values that never change. Right now they > have to have a horrible shell-script to set these values in devtmpfs > when the device shows up to the needed numbers. This tiny patch gets > rid of that shell script entirely, allowing them to specify it from the > kernel as needed.
What's to stop them from using static /dev? Has an extra benefit of getting rid of devtmpfs shite completely... -- 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/
