Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 06 Jun 1999 10:55:19 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Migrating to larger numbers |
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Riley Williams wrote: > > I've just had a look at the Documentation/devices.txt file included > with kernel 2.2.9, and the obvious solution based on that file would > be to swap the definitions of majors 0 and 42 over. For reference, > here are the relevant definitions therein: >
That probably would be a bad choice. I would assign a virgin major instead, or perhaps recycle major 128 (majors 128-135 are kept internal to the kernel, and hence aren't so critical. We only need two majors when we have more minors, anyhow.)
-hpa
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