Re: [PATCH] register_blkdev

From: Joel Becker (Joel.Becker@oracle.com)
Date: Fri Mar 07 2003 - 21:15:05 EST

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On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 05:58:06PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> <shameless plug>
>
> http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2003/view_abstract.php?talk=94

I personally think that /dev population should exist in
userspace as well. I *hope* you mean to populate a regular filesystem
with device nodes that your system manages.
That said, however /dev is populated, we need the dev_t space to
represent the devices :-)

Joel

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