[openib-general] Re: [PATCH][RFC/v1][11/12] Add InfiniBand Documentation files

Johannes Erdfelt johannes at erdfelt.com
Mon Nov 22 22:51:10 PST 2004


On Mon, Nov 22, 2004, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 03:30:47PM -0800, Johannes Erdfelt wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 22, 2004, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
> > > People who do not use udev will not like you.
> > 
> > I don't quite understand this. Given things like udev, wouldn't dynamic
> > majors work just like having a static major number?
> 
> Yes, but people who do not use udev, will have a hard time creating the
> device nodes by hand every time.

Ok, I can understand that for now.

Is the eventual plan to move to dynamic majors for all devices?

JE




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