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Date:      Tue, 20 May 1997 15:10:08 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@dk.tfs.com>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.ORG>, Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Backwards compatibiliy for isa_driver 
Message-ID:  <1063.864133808@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 May 1997 10:43:42 BST." <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970520102420.15296L-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> 

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>I still don't understand.  All the entries for different major numbers
>would then have a different type:
>
>	char:3:wd
>	char:13:sd
>	char:29:mcd
>
>I hate major numbers anyway.  Devfs should dynamically allocate majors and
>everyone should use devfs.  That means making devfs work properly...

If devfs is brought to work correctly, there will not even be a concept
of major/minor numbers anymore... 

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Poul-Henning Kamp           | phk@FreeBSD.ORG       FreeBSD Core-team.
http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk    Private mailbox.
whois: [PHK]                | phk@tfs.com           TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
Power and ignorance is a disgusting cocktail.



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