Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266057AbUAFBRf (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2004 20:17:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266058AbUAFBRf (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2004 20:17:35 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:7108 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266057AbUAFBRd (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2004 20:17:33 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 17:17:20 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk cc: Andries Brouwer , Daniel Jacobowitz , Rob Love , rob@landley.net, Pascal Schmidt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH Subject: Re: udev and devfs - The final word In-Reply-To: <20040106005944.GH4176@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Message-ID: References: <20040104230104.A11439@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20040105030737.GA29964@nevyn.them.org> <20040105132756.A975@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20040105205228.A1092@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20040106001326.A1128@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20040106005944.GH4176@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 850 Lines: 20 On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote: > > Cute. There's a little issue of, say it, meaningful relationship between > sda and sda4, completely lost that way. And _that_ has nothing to do with > device enumeration. Oh, don't look too closely at some pseudo-code, it's not like the code would actually do that for a minor number. But for things like major number allocation for disk devices, it might not be too far off. And we migth even want to start off the minors at some "random" offset (obviously while keeping the alignment right for the partition handling) Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/