Tejun Heo wrote:
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> 
>> Since when is the major:minor view of devices the "standard" one that
>> userspace uses?  Last I looked, userspace uses symlinks and lots of
>> other ways of directly accessing block devices in /dev/, and does not
>> rely on major:minor.
> 
> The fact that major:minor is the unique identifier of a device makes it
> a bit special compared to other names on filesystem.
> 

In particular, stat() and friends returns the device number, not a 
device name.

	-hpa
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