Re: udev and devfs - The final word

[viro]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 03:32:03PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 	dev_t lbt_devno()
> 	{
> 		return nr++;
> 	}
> 
> since the numbers do have to be unique "per boot". They just shouldn't be 
> considered "stable" _nor_ "meaningful".

Cute.  There's a little issue of, say it, meaningful relationship between
sda and sda4, completely lost that way.  And _that_ has nothing to do with
device enumeration.
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