Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 15 May 2001 09:57:24 +0100 (BST)


> The fact that it already exists, and has existed for 5+ years, but that
> nobody really uses it?
>
> Nobody really uses it because it would require you to add a line or two to
> your init scripts to pick up the major number from /proc/devices, and
> that's obviously too hard. Much better to just hardcode randome numbers,
> right?

modprobe ?

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