Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 14 May 2001 23:30:15 +0100 (BST)


> Would you mind demonstrating such wonder? Old devices are still there,
> AFAICS. Ext2 (reiserfs, devfs, abortion-of-your-choice-fs) still has
> the ability to create device nodes for them.

Except that Linus wont hand out major numbers, which means I can't even boot
simply off such a device. I bet the vendors in question dont think the sun
shines out of linus backside any more.

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