Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 22:45:08 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Johannes Erdfelt <johannes@erdfelt.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org
Subject: Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH][RFC/v1][11/12] Add InfiniBand Documentation files
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On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 03:30:47PM -0800, Johannes Erdfelt wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2004, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 02:58:45PM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
> > >     Greg> Oh, have you asked for a real major number to be reserved
> > >     Greg> for umad?
> > > 
> > > No, I think we're fine with a dynamic major.  Is there any reason to
> > > want a real major?
> > 
> > People who do not use udev will not like you.
> 
> I don't quite understand this. Given things like udev, wouldn't dynamic
> majors work just like having a static major number?

Yes, but people who do not use udev, will have a hard time creating the
device nodes by hand every time.

thanks,

greg k-h
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