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Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 23:35:31 +0100
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Subject: Re: allocate an official device major number for virtio device?
From: Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
To: Jeff Sharkey <jsharkey@android.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Jin Qian <jinqian@android.com>, "Ning, Yu" <yu.ning@intel.com>,
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        David Turner <digit@google.com>,
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On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 11:12 PM, Jeff Sharkey <jsharkey@android.com> wrote:
> Adding a bit more context, in Android when we receive a uevent about a
> new disk we use a separate userspace utility (sgdisk) to inspect the
> partitions it contains, and we construct our own mknod() for the
> partitions that we're interested in.  (We're doing this manually
> because Android doesn't have devtmpfs.)

Why don't you just enable devtmpfs? :-)

-- 
Thanks,
//richard