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, 26 Feb 2002 04:18:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 04:18:32 -0500 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:44300 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 04:18:29 -0500 Subject: Re: Submissions for 2.4.19-pre [sdmany (Richard Gooch)] [Discuss :) ] To: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca (Richard Gooch) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 09:29:52 +0000 (GMT) Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), me@ohdarn.net (Michael Cohen), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, marcelo@conectiva.com.br In-Reply-To: <200202260324.g1Q3O9I14886@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> from "Richard Gooch" at Feb 25, 2002 08:24:09 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > function so that >128 SD's can be used. You seem to be against this > patch because it would mean that you can't just keep handing out major > numbers, ignoring Linus' "no new majors" decree. Linus no new numbers decree was irrelevant. You can live in your little ivory tower if it makes you happy, but everyone else works off the post Linus devices.txt maintained by LANANA. Even if your hack reflected the newer table it would still be an ugly hack for a few special case situations rather than any notion of release quality. Its a very clever devfs hack, but its still an ugly hack Do it right, and do it in 2.5 Alan