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Date:      Mon, 2 Feb 2004 16:46:45 -0700 (MST)
From:      Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>
To:        Paul Saab <ps@freebsd.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf majors
Message-ID:  <20040202164529.U30868@pooker.samsco.home>
In-Reply-To: <20040202222516.GA11304@elvis.mu.org>
References:  <200402022000.i12K0uvl041338@repoman.freebsd.org> <1318.1075755673@critter.freebsd.dk> <20040202220827.GA9448@elvis.mu.org> <20040202222342.GE75671@FreeBSD.org.ua> <20040202222516.GA11304@elvis.mu.org>

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On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Paul Saab wrote:
> Ruslan Ermilov (ru@FreeBSD.org) wrote:
> > What PHK means is that if this driver is both for 5.x and 4.x,
> > then you should only register its major in RELENG_4 -- 5.x
> > provides automatic major numbers allocations:
>
> And it will run in RELENG_4 as well as -current, so it needs a major
> number.
>
>

Unless you have a userland app that requires specific knowledge of the
major number (and please don't tell me that you are going to follow the
broken path of asr(4) here =-), there is no reason to reserve a static
major assignment in -current.

Scott



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