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Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 23:06:49 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Fixed device names
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On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 11:22:21AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>for a long time I'm thinking about giving fixed device names
>to the devices which are handled by the fhandler_dev_raw and 
>subsequent classes.  I don't like the solution that these    
>devices have to have mount table entries and I would like to get
>rid of them.

I think all of these are excellent suggestions.

But you knew that...

I wonder if anyone else has any observations, though.

cgf