Re: MMC block major dev

From: Alan Cox
Date: Wed Sep 01 2004 - 08:25:14 EST


On Maw, 2004-08-31 at 20:13, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> Some debug statements revealed that the driver ended up on major number
> 254. I'm not familiar with how kernel memory is initialized but using an
> uninitialized variable should result in random numbers. It seems to get
> 254 each time though. Can I count on this? (i.e. can I safely create
> device node files with this major).

No.

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