> And my opinion is that the "hot-plugged" approach works for devices even > if they are soldered down - the "plugging" event just always happens > before the OS is booted, and people just don't unplug it. So we might as This is true on one condition. That you can ask the device what it is, what it does and to an extent where it is and how you get to it. Right now thyats much of what majors is about -but I still believe this is 2.5 stuff > show up in /dev, and everywhere else it is needed. And the logical > extension of such a setup is to consider built-in devices to be plugged in > at bootup. Agreed > [ The biggest silliness is this "let's try to make the disks appear in the > same order that the BIOS probes them". Now THAT is really stupid, and it > goes on a lot more than I'd ever like to see. ] RIght - Lilo needs to know but nobody else should except when they need to ask eg to find which disk failed - 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/
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Kai Henningsen
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Jonathan Lundell
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Kai Henningsen
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Jonathan Lundell
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Jonathan Lundell
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Eric W. Biederman
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Jonathan Lundell
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Jonathan Lundell
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Kai Henningsen
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Geert Uytterhoeven
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Alan Cox
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants H. Peter Anvin
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Andreas Dilger
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Dan Hollis
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Neil Brown
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Linus Torvalds
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Daniel Phillips
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Jens Axboe
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Neil Brown
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants John Fremlin
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Rik van Riel