Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Aug 2002 16:19:15 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] integrate driverfs and devfs (2.5.28) |
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On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 02:26:35AM -0400, Rob Landley wrote: > > So what's root_dev_names in init/do_mounts.c? If a default naming policy is > so unacceptably evil, is that being removed in 2.5 and everybody being told > to use major/minor for the root device?
Yes. Well no. We can't break backwards compatibility with userspace like this. So things like root device naming will have to live on for a while.
> By the way, why doesn't imposing consistent predefined major/minor numbers > (0x0301 instead of "hda1") count as "policy"? I'm honestly curious...
It does. I want to get rid of it too :) But that's still a ways away...
thanks,
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