On Monday 09 April 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> dm is on 254 for me.. in opensuse with a 2.6.20 that is. I wonder why
>> it even moves around. However, even then, those who use udev and
>> device names rather than (major,minor) tuples should not have any
>> problem.
>
>It moves around because someone at some point thought it was a great
>idea to assign dynamic majors to core functionality.
>
What were they smoking, I want some of that!
>It stays put at 254 for you since that's the highest (and thus
>first-used) dynamic major.
>
> -hpa
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Cheers, Gene
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<Culus> OH MY GOD NOT A RANDOM QUOTE GENERATOR
<netgod> surely you didnt think that was static? how lame would that
be? :-)
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