From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753425AbXDITiq (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 15:38:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753428AbXDITiq (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 15:38:46 -0400 Received: from vms046pub.verizon.net ([206.46.252.46]:35311 "EHLO vms046pub.verizon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753425AbXDITip (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 15:38:45 -0400 Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:38:44 -0400 From: Gene Heskett Subject: Re: I give up In-reply-to: <461A71FA.40900@zytor.com> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Jan Engelhardt , Jeff Garzik Message-id: <200704091538.44253.gene.heskett@gmail.com> Organization: Organization? very little MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <200704091007.58535.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <461A71FA.40900@zytor.com> User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 09 April 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> dm is on 254 for me.. in opensuse with a 2.6.20 that is. I wonder why >> it even moves around. However, even then, those who use udev and >> device names rather than (major,minor) tuples should not have any >> problem. > >It moves around because someone at some point thought it was a great >idea to assign dynamic majors to core functionality. > What were they smoking, I want some of that! >It stays put at 254 for you since that's the highest (and thus >first-used) dynamic major. > > -hpa -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) OH MY GOD NOT A RANDOM QUOTE GENERATOR surely you didnt think that was static? how lame would that be? :-)