Re: [PATCH] remove DEVFS_FL_AUTO_DEVNUM

[Neil Brown]

On  March 2, [e-mail] wrote:
> Followup to:  <[e-mail]>
> By author:    Christoph Hellwig <[e-mail]>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> > 
> > Rationale:  while dynamic major/minors are a good idea, devfs is the
> > wrong layer to do it because all code relying on it would break with
> > out devfs.
> > 
> 
> Your first clause here is a *highly* questionable statement...

Given the premise "Linus will not allow new static major/minors",
I think it is essential :-(

NeilBrown

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