From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262033AbTLYSpz (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Dec 2003 13:45:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262092AbTLYSpz (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Dec 2003 13:45:55 -0500 Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([213.86.99.234]:44555 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262033AbTLYSpy (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Dec 2003 13:45:54 -0500 Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 18:45:53 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Andreas Jellinghaus Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] add sysfs mem device support [2/4] Message-ID: <20031225184553.A25397@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Andreas Jellinghaus , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20031223002126.GA4805@kroah.com> <20031223002439.GB4805@kroah.com> <20031223002609.GC4805@kroah.com> <20031223131523.B6864@infradead.org> <1072193516.3472.3.camel@fur> <20031223163904.A8589@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from aj@dungeon.inka.de on Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 06:48:51PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 06:48:51PM +0100, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 16:47:44 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > I disagree. For fully static devices like the mem devices the udev > > indirection is completely superflous. > > If sysfs does not contain data on mem devices, we will need makedev. > > devfs did replace makedev. until udev can create all devices, > it would need to re-introduce makedev. So what?