Re: (Semi-random) thoughts on device tree structure and devfs

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%softjar.se@localhost>]

Quentin Garnier wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 09:14:09PM +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> > Quentin Garnier wrote:
> [...]
> > My answer only intended to show that the device enumeration isn't
> > random, depending on if you add/remove other devices, which is what
> > Masao was claiming.
>
> Your answer only says that device enumeration is deterministic.  Nobody
> said that it wasn't.  I know autoconf(9) hasn't aged very well, but it's
> not that bad.  Yet.

Masao said exactly that. Or rather, that it wasn't possible to get the 
same device number for a specific device facing other changes in the 
hardware configuration.

        Johnny

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