From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932950AbXDJDsU (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 23:48:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932997AbXDJDsU (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 23:48:20 -0400 Received: from vms046pub.verizon.net ([206.46.252.46]:45103 "EHLO vms046pub.verizon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932969AbXDJDsS (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 23:48:18 -0400 Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 23:47:57 -0400 From: Gene Heskett Subject: Re: I give up In-reply-to: <20070410012754.GD1994@redhat.com> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Dave Jones , Dave Dillow , Jan Engelhardt , "H. Peter Anvin" , Jeff Garzik Message-id: <200704092347.57433.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> <1176157330.4767.12.camel@dillow.idleaire.net> <20070410012754.GD1994@redhat.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, Dave Jones wrote: >On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 06:22:10PM -0400, Dave Dillow wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 23:35 +0200, 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? > > > > udev doesn't help the problem he is having (and he is using it, since > > he is using Fedora). > >However, it also doesn't explain what the point is of backing up /dev >when it's dynamically created. > > Dave I'm glad you mentioned that, I was, leftovers from RH7.3 probably. :( -- 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) Windows Tip of the Day: Add DEVICE=FNGRCROS.SYS to your CONFIG.SYS file.