From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932933AbXDJDlS (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 23:41:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030323AbXDJDlS (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 23:41:18 -0400 Received: from vms042pub.verizon.net ([206.46.252.42]:43985 "EHLO vms042pub.verizon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932933AbXDJDlR (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 23:41:17 -0400 Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 23:41:08 -0400 From: Gene Heskett Subject: Re: I give up In-reply-to: To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Jan Engelhardt , "H. Peter Anvin" , Jeff Garzik Message-id: <200704092341.08485.gene.heskett@gmail.com> Organization: Organization? very little MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <200704091007.58535.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <200704091538.44253.gene.heskett@gmail.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, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >On Apr 9 2007 15:38, Gene Heskett wrote: >>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! > >Do you actually use udev? > Yes, and it works just fine, for non-LVM filesystems. > > >Jan -- 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) "The greatest warriors are the ones who fight for peace." -- Holly Near