Re: regarding major number of block extended devt

[H. Peter Anvin]

Tejun Heo wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > But just allocating a big bucket of device numbers and throw it all into
> > a pot semirandomly is likely to cause more damage, not less.
>
> To use ext devt, the system has to use udev for device numbers.  As long
> as udev is used, the major number doesn't matter.

I'm sorry, but that's simply false.  There is a *lot* of code out there 
that assumes you can determine what the device is by correlating the 
major number with /proc/devices.

	-hpa
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