Re: allocate an official device major number for virtio device?

[Richard Weinberger]

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 11:12 PM, Jeff Sharkey <jsharkey@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Adding a bit more context, in Android when we receive a uevent about a
> new disk we use a separate userspace utility (sgdisk) to inspect the
> partitions it contains, and we construct our own mknod() for the
> partitions that we're interested in.  (We're doing this manually
> because Android doesn't have devtmpfs.)

Why don't you just enable devtmpfs? :-)

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Thanks,
//richard