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Date:   Tue, 21 Jan 2020 16:42:45 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: Question about dynamic minor number of misc device
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On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 05:13:23PM -0500, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> > - FLASH_MINOR move and rename to avoid conflict
> > - change speakup to dynamic minors
> > - support for high dynamic minor numbers if you are really motivated
> >   (probably nobody needs these)
> 
> Are we sure that reassigning minor device number conflits isn't going
> to break systems?  Especially those on random, older, architectures
> they might not be using udev.

Note, I do not think udev has been in charge of creating /dev/ nodes for
well over 10 years now, that is up to devtmpfs.

thanks,

greg k-h