On 8/26/06, Vinicius Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 8/26/06, Stephen Pollei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So I don't see why you need any major or minor numbers assigned. Maybe
> I am wrong though.
Is that true for the 2.4 kernel series?
I think that 2.6 is when udev, hotplug, and the sysfs became mature.
Even in 2.6 the udev and sysfs systems have been evolving.
http://lwn.net/Articles/191654/ and others have noted some problems
with compatibility and stability of interfaces during this process. So
even in the 2.6 series ; 2.6.16.28 and 2.6.2 are going to look
different in some regards as to how dynamic devices are handled.
However kernels older than say 2.6.14 should probably be considered
legacy and not worried about too much. Maybe make sure Ubuntu LTS and
RHEL have drivers and such. Otherwise just try to get merged into
Linus's kernel tree.. And x.org's X11 tree. Newer distro's will pick
it up naturily.
2.4 had devfs, which had unfixable races and not all distro's used. So
dynamic numbers were possible but not commonly used in practice and
their use in 2.4 might lead to security problems. 2.4 is also legacy
at this point.
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