Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Jan 2020 16:42:45 +0100 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: Question about dynamic minor number of misc device |
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On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 05:13:23PM -0500, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > > - FLASH_MINOR move and rename to avoid conflict > > - change speakup to dynamic minors > > - support for high dynamic minor numbers if you are really motivated > > (probably nobody needs these) > > Are we sure that reassigning minor device number conflits isn't going > to break systems? Especially those on random, older, architectures > they might not be using udev.
Note, I do not think udev has been in charge of creating /dev/ nodes for well over 10 years now, that is up to devtmpfs.
thanks,
greg k-h
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