Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Jan 2004 00:59:44 +0000 | From | viro@parcelfa ... | Subject | Re: udev and devfs - The final word |
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On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 03:32:03PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > dev_t lbt_devno() > { > return nr++; > } > > since the numbers do have to be unique "per boot". They just shouldn't be > considered "stable" _nor_ "meaningful".
Cute. There's a little issue of, say it, meaningful relationship between sda and sda4, completely lost that way. And _that_ has nothing to do with device enumeration. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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