Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 00:57:59 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Kai Henningsen <kaih@khms.westfalen.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: udev and devfs - The final word
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On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 01:26:44AM -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
> > Moral: keep the identifier creation framework flexible enough so that you
> > can chose device-specific means to produce useful identifiers. (And, use
> > long identifiers, as they're less likely to be duplicated in general.)
> 
> Seems to be what udev is for.  When we do go to random major and minor 
> numbers, maybe it would be useful to let udev request specific ones?  (Just a 
> thought...)

Let udev request specific what?  Major/minor numbers?  Huh?  I think you
are very confused here...

thanks,

greg k-h
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