Re: Migrating to larger numbers
Raul Miller (rdm@test.legislate.com)
Tue, 8 Jun 1999 09:03:12 -0400
Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au> wrote:
> > Dynamic numbers will break NFS guarantees when the server reboots.
> > [And breaking NFS was one of the big arguments for not going to 64 bits.]
> > Admittedly, not always -- just at the worst possible times.
> >
> > A proper solution to the generic problem would be to associate a device
> > number with a configuration string via user space.
>
> Devfs doesn't mean dynamic device numbers. In fact, all drivers in the
> device patch still have their old device numbers. Compatibility,
> compatibility, compatibility.
That's smoke and mirrors, and has nothing to do with the cases where
devfs addresses a reason you'd want larger device numbers.
Please try to approach this honestly?
--
Raul
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