Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261244AbVC2Q5T (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:57:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261247AbVC2Q5T (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:57:19 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:31402 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261244AbVC2Q5I (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:57:08 -0500 Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:57:05 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Ed L Cashin Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg K-H Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [7/12]: support configuration of AOE_PARTITIONS from Kconfig Message-ID: <20050329165705.GA31013@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Ed L Cashin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg K-H References: <87mztbi79d.fsf@coraid.com> <20050317234641.GA7091@kroah.com> <1111677688.29912@geode.he.net> <20050328170735.GA9567@infradead.org> <87hdiuv3lz.fsf@coraid.com> <20050329162506.GA30401@infradead.org> <87wtrqtn2n.fsf@coraid.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87wtrqtn2n.fsf@coraid.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 799 Lines: 19 On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 11:48:48AM -0500, Ed L Cashin wrote: > I don't know if it matters now that we have udev. When udev manages > the device nodes it all just works, But most peopel still don't use udev. > If you're saying that it's bad in principal, then that's another > story. If that's what you mean, then it's a Linux policy issue, and > to follow convention I'd think that we'd need another major number. > That would be like the partitionable md devices, etc. Yes, it's a policy issue. We don't do this weird config option anywhere else. - 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/