On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 01:17 -0300, Martín Ferrari wrote: > I'm copying Bdale, the maintainer of makedev. > > While trying to make a patch for this bug I noticed that MAKEDEV (both > the 2.* in sid and the 3.* in experimental) doesn't know about nbd > devices, but nb* devices, with the same major number (43). I don't > know where to check if this is a makedev bug or not. > > Also, lilo is checking /proc/partitions for major number 43, which > doesn't seem a robust as it may change in the future, isn't there any > alternative?
Is bug #210377 related? It's been a while, but I think I never felt that discussion reached a concensus on what makedev should do differently, if anything, and so I haven't acted on it yet. Bdale
