On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 09:03:31PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote: > dev_t (however poorly designed you might think it to be) is a part of > the kernel/application API that has been there forever, and is not > going away any time soon.
The only property of dev_t that userland really cares is that it is a number and that it is unique per device. That is fulfilled as long as e.g. each device is assigned from a monotonically increasing counter. > Part of what I am seeing when reading this discussion is that it doesn't > appear as if any two participants have any real idea what the others are > talking about - everyone is focusing only upon their pet need or desire, > and no-one is really looking at the big picture. I don't disagree on this. Joerg
