On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 11:06:16AM -0500, Ed L Cashin wrote: > > > > NACK. this changes devices nodes based on a compile-time option. > > I'm not sure I follow. This configuration option sets the number of > partitions per device in the driver. It doesn't create device nodes. > > If the user has udev, then the device nodes are created correctly (on > Fedora Core 3), so that if the driver is configured with 1 partition > per device, the minor numbers for the disks are low. > > The folks I've talked to who aren't using udev but want one partition > per device already know that they have to re-create their device > files.
It changes a kernel ABI, so people that have different config options set can't use the same userland. It's a really big no-go. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
