Re: Dynamic major/minor numbers (or dropping them completely)

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 ma

Re: Dynamic major/minor numbers (or dropping them completely)

Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu wrote: *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(r) Pro* Currently, the kernel has the following properties: 1) initramfs can be used to boot the system. We don't need any predefined /dev entries. 2) udev can be started from the initramfs to create

Dynamic major/minor numbers (or dropping them completely)

*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(r) Pro* Currently, the kernel has the following properties: 1) initramfs can be used to boot the system. We don't need any predefined /dev entries. 2) udev can be started from the initramfs to create the required entries in /dev.