Re: drivers/block/ub.c

[Oliver Neukum]

Am Montag, 28. Juni 2004 17:40 schrieb Alan Stern:
> Or maybe I've misunderstood completely, not just partially.  In any case,
> are you sure you will want to do this?  The directive for not tracking 
> serial numbers or trying in some other way to make devices appear to be 
> persistent across reconnects came directly from Linus.

IIRC he banned reconnecting device nodes in use.
Reusing the number is legal. In fact in a finite number space there's
always a chance that the number will have to be reused.

	Regards
		Oliver

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