On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 19:05, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: > Would someone tell me why Linus asked that the device registry be > frozen? Don't new devices require new device number allocations? > Apparently the proliferation of device numbers is found unacceptable - I would guess that by the time 2.6 comes out everything would have shifted to using DevFS anyway. The alternative would be to start using 32-bit major+minor numbers... or tinker with the number of bits assigned to the major and minor components. Regards, -- Michel Alexandre Salim GPG public key at http://salimma.freeshell.org
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