Re: [PATCH] add sysfs mem device support [2/4]

From: Tomasz Torcz
Date: Fri Dec 26 2003 - 11:56:20 EST


On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 04:19:49PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 09:41:28PM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> > So maybe suggest an solution rather than shooting one down all the
> > time (which do seem logical, and is only apposed by one person currently
> > - namely you =).
>
> My suggestion is to just use MAKEDEV asis for devices that are static
> like the memdevices. Dynamic solutions do not buy us anything for those.

They do buy when using tmpfs for /dev.

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