On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 11:48:48AM -0500, Ed L Cashin wrote: > I don't know if it matters now that we have udev. When udev manages > the device nodes it all just works,
But most peopel still don't use udev. > If you're saying that it's bad in principal, then that's another > story. If that's what you mean, then it's a Linux policy issue, and > to follow convention I'd think that we'd need another major number. > That would be like the partitionable md devices, etc. Yes, it's a policy issue. We don't do this weird config option anywhere else. - 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/