Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Mon May 14 2001 - 17:58:39 EST


> Oh, _that_ one. <shrug> pass rootname=driver!name (or whatever syntax
> you prefer) to the kernel and call do_mount() instead of sys_mknod() in
> prepare_namespace() (rootfs patch). BFD.

Yet another 2.5 project. If Linus wants to go play with name driven devices
and you want to help him great, but if he'd care to put out
linux-2.5.0.tar.gz _before_ starting that would be good for all of us

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