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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
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On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 01:52:37AM +0100, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On the other hand, if the goal is to find and eradicate all such
> ugly uses of explicit device numbers, Linus' idea to make it all
> random will certainly help.
> (But a big grep for st_rdev might be more efficient.)

That will be one goal of 2.7 :)

thanks,

greg k-h