This patch sequence moves the creation of the sysfs "dev" file of the class devices into the driver core. The struct class_device contains a dev_t value now. If set, the driver core will create the "dev" file containing the major/minor numbers automatically.
The MAJOR/MINOR values are also exported to the hotplug environment. This makes it easy for userspace, especially udev to know if it should wait for a "dev" file to create a device node or if it can just ignore the event. We currently carry a compiled in blacklist around for that reason. It would also be possible to run some "tiny udev" while sysfs is not available - just by reading the hotplug call or the netlink-uevent. Thanks, Kay - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
