Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265083AbUF1QmX (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jun 2004 12:42:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265082AbUF1Qlc (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jun 2004 12:41:32 -0400 Received: from mail1.kontent.de ([81.88.34.36]:63391 "EHLO Mail1.KONTENT.De") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265077AbUF1QlV convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jun 2004 12:41:21 -0400 From: Oliver Neukum To: Alan Stern Subject: Re: drivers/block/ub.c Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 18:42:28 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: Pete Zaitcev , Greg KH , , , , , , References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: <200406281842.28178.oliver@neukum.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 773 Lines: 18 Am Montag, 28. Juni 2004 17:40 schrieb Alan Stern: > Or maybe I've misunderstood completely, not just partially. ?In any case, > are you sure you will want to do this? ?The directive for not tracking > serial numbers or trying in some other way to make devices appear to be > persistent across reconnects came directly from Linus. IIRC he banned reconnecting device nodes in use. Reusing the number is legal. In fact in a finite number space there's always a chance that the number will have to be reused. Regards Oliver - 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/