[Ubi] Wrong major:minor

Mike Frysinger vapier.adi at gmail.com
Fri Jun 24 10:33:55 EDT 2011


On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 07:46, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
>>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Frysinger writes:
>  >> Although I'm not sure - dynamic numbers were introduced because
>  >> fixed numbers are PITA, so adding such a parameter would be a step
>  >> backward.  Not sure...
> >
> > yeah, i dont think there should be.  at least nothing specific to
> > ubi.  perhaps a general kernel thing where you could match the
> > registered name to a static #, but then that wouldnt be ubi's
> > problem.  that'd be in the core logic and work for all devices.
>
> That already exists - CONFIG_DEVTMPFS.

while useful, that isnt what we were talking about.  that lets the
kernel populate /dev, that doesnt hardcode major/minor #s.
-mike



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