Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 14 May 2001 23:55:37 +0100 (BST)


> > And lilo ?
>
> LILO uses BIOS, for fsck sake. It couldn't care less for device numbers
> on the kernel side. Ask Andries how much do they have in common with
> BIOS drive numbers.

grep MAJOR lilo-21.4.4/*|wc -l
323

Also hdparm
raidtools
psmisc
mtools
mt-st
gpm
joystick

and that is a simple grep of BUILD/*/*.c on RH 7.0. Im not even looking deeper
into subdirectories or powertools or anything like a full debian archive

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