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Re: strange sd entries /proc/devices

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dominik Kubla)
Tue Aug 1 07:05:58 2000

Date:	Tue, 1 Aug 2000 13:02:58 +0200
From:	Dominik Kubla <dominik.kubla@uni-mainz.de>
To:	Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
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On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 12:42:20PM +0200, Kurt Garloff wrote:
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> I think Doug knows that very well.
> Still he thinks that it would be more aesthetical to hide the additional
> entries from /proc/devices.

No: Because this is a simple way to find which major numbers are allocated
on a system.

> I disagree. I agree that the %d things are ugly and should be removed,
> though.

Thank the devfs folks for this...

Dominik Kubla
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