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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] integrate driverfs and devfs (2.5.28)
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On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 02:26:35AM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
> 
> So what's root_dev_names in init/do_mounts.c?  If a default naming policy is 
> so unacceptably evil, is that being removed in 2.5 and everybody being told 
> to use major/minor for the root device?

Yes.  Well no.  We can't break backwards compatibility with userspace
like this.  So things like root device naming will have to live on for a
while.

> By the way, why doesn't imposing consistent predefined major/minor numbers 
> (0x0301 instead of "hda1") count as "policy"?   I'm honestly curious...

It does.  I want to get rid of it too :)  But that's still a ways away...

thanks,

greg k-h
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