From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: "Måns Rullgård" <mru@users.sourceforge.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: devfs vs. udev
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 21:34:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031017043416.GA6735@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0310142145410.3044-100000@raven.themaw.net>
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 09:51:43PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
>
> 2) I believe udev does not support for an increased number of anonymous
> devices for such things as NFS and autofs mounts. I can't see anything in
> the kernel (2.6) to improve this either. Can devfs provide improvements
> for this without to much pain?
udev has no control over this. If the kernel supports an increased
number, udev will support it. The number of raw devices has recently
been increased, due to the new major/minor increase. Such a patch for
anonymous devices could probably be easily created.
Hope this helps,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-17 5:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-07 12:38 devfs vs. udev Måns Rullgård
2003-10-07 13:41 ` Andreas Jellinghaus
2003-10-07 14:07 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-10-07 14:23 ` Robert L. Harris
2003-10-07 14:29 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-10-07 16:06 ` Andreas Jellinghaus
2003-10-07 16:11 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-10-07 16:14 ` Robert L. Harris
2003-10-07 16:54 ` Hugo Mills
2003-10-07 17:19 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-10-07 17:47 ` Greg KH
2003-10-07 17:49 ` Greg KH
2003-10-07 17:58 ` Hugo Mills
2003-10-07 18:10 ` Greg KH
2003-10-09 13:43 ` Ian Kent
2003-10-09 20:54 ` Greg KH
2003-10-07 17:55 ` Greg KH
2003-10-14 13:51 ` Ian Kent
2003-10-17 4:34 ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-10-07 17:54 ` Greg KH
2003-10-07 14:01 ` tabris
2003-10-07 17:53 ` Greg KH
2003-10-07 18:24 ` viro
2003-12-23 11:51 DevFS " Bradley W. Allen
2003-12-23 12:06 ` Duncan Sands
2003-12-23 12:12 ` Xavier Bestel
2003-12-23 12:37 ` Marcelo Bezerra
2003-12-23 13:02 ` Ed Tomlinson
2003-12-25 12:11 ` Kai Henningsen
2003-12-23 14:30 ` Paul Dickson
2003-12-23 23:23 ` Bradley W. Allen
2003-12-23 23:46 ` Brett
2003-12-24 4:01 ` alex.g.goddard.1
2003-12-23 16:19 ` Ian Kent
2003-12-23 17:34 ` Mark Mielke
2003-12-23 22:02 ` Greg KH
2003-12-23 22:13 ` Tomasz Torcz
2003-12-24 0:45 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-12-24 1:07 ` Greg KH
2003-12-24 1:28 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-12-23 21:59 ` Greg KH
2003-12-24 1:52 ` Ian Kent
2003-12-24 2:03 ` Rob Love
2003-12-24 2:21 ` Ian Kent
2003-12-24 2:22 ` Rob Love
2003-12-24 2:32 ` Stan Bubrouski
2003-12-24 2:39 ` Rob Love
2003-12-24 2:38 ` Andrew Morton
2003-12-24 3:41 ` viro
2003-12-24 11:33 ` Witukind
2003-12-24 4:13 ` Rusty Russell
2003-12-24 4:38 ` Stan Bubrouski
2003-12-24 11:15 ` Xavier Bestel
2003-12-24 13:44 ` Ian Soboroff
2003-12-24 14:17 ` Xavier Bestel
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