From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 15 May 2001 18:34:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 15 May 2001 18:34:18 -0400 Received: from neon-gw.transmeta.com ([209.10.217.66]:49165 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 15 May 2001 18:33:59 -0400 Message-ID: <3B01AE8B.7789F2A0@transmeta.com> Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 15:32:43 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Transmeta Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.5-pre1-zisofs i686) X-Accept-Language: en, sv, no, da, es, fr, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Gooch CC: Alan Cox , Ingo Oeser , Linus Torvalds , Neil Brown , Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel Mailing List , viro@math.psu.edu Subject: Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants In-Reply-To: <200105152141.f4FLff300686@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> <200105152228.f4FMSQw02343@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Richard Gooch wrote: > > Even if we have per-device filesystems, we are going to have the same > issue, in one form or another. If we have a "/devicetype" trailing > component added on, then somewhere it has to report "CD-ROM" or "cd" > or "Compact Disc". > Again, many device types aren't mutually exclusive. It's a set, not an enum. -- at work, in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt