Re: udev and devfs - The final word

[Greg KH <greg _at_ xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 02:18:55AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 04:29:42PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > 
> >  2) We are (well, were) running out of major and minor numbers for
> >     devices.
> 
> devfs tried to fix this one by _getting rid_ of those numbers.
> Seriously - what are they needed for?  

But devfs failed in this.  The devfs kernel interface still requires a
major/minor number to create device nodes.

Hopefully I can work on fixing this up in 2.7.

thanks,

greg k-h
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