Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 16:08:58 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@pathscale.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11 of 20] ipath - core driver, part 4 of 4
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On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 03:17:55PM -0800, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 00:12 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > And does your driver work with udev?  I didn't see where you were
> > exporting the major:minor number of your devices to sysfs, but I might
> > have missed it.
> 
> It was written in a pre-udev world, so it still uses a fixed major and
> minor number.  How important is this to you?  Is it "nice to have", or
> "blocker"? :-)

Well, depends on if you want your driver to work with any of the major
distros that rely on udev (RHEL, SLES, etc...)  If not, fine, you don't
need it :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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