Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 12:05:07 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu> Cc: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removal of Disklabel Message-ID: <200012032005.eB3K57m68219@earth.backplane.com> References: <200011210459.PAA28469@lightning.itga.com.au> <20001121000936.C27827@dragon.nuxi.com> <200012021921.eB2JLmd64092@earth.backplane.com> <3A29848D.9AA7449B@glue.umd.edu>
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:Matt Dillon wrote:
:> Eventually we won't need device nubers at all, but for now we are somewhat > stuck.
:
:Can you elaborate on that for the curious?
If I remember correctly, the work Poul is doing with the new dev_t
infrastructure and the work Julian (and others?) are doing with devfs
will eventually lead to us being able to have a dynamic /dev, where
device numbers are assigned on the fly.
-Matt
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