Re: [PATCH] remove MAKEDEV scripts from scripts/

From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Date: Thu Feb 19 2004 - 12:56:03 EST


On Thursday 19 of February 2004 18:04, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 06:09:44PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > > Christoph, please remove MAKEDEV.ide references from
> > > Documentation/ide.txt 8).
> >
> > Ugh, there are much more references to MAKEDEV in Documentation/ dir.
>
> MAKEDEV is okay, it's the script in /dev used to create device nodes.

I know but this is inconsistent - "makedev is a userland issue, and the
distros already take care of ide and sound. ". Same goes for MAKEDEV.

We should at least try to remove some these references during 2.6.
(and make people aware about udev, random major/minor numbers, etc.).

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