Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:25:07 +0200 | From | Helge Hafting <> | Subject | Re: Getting past the 16-bit dev_t limitation. |
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John Byrne wrote:
> 1.) Can anyone tell me if there is a (Linus approved) solution in the > works for this for the 2.4.xx kernel series?
> I am also curious whether there are plans to do away with the whole > concept of major/minor numbers;
Consider reading up on devfs, which is now integrated into 2.4. Basically it is a (optional) special filesystem, where a driver register a name for each device it serves, possibly in a subdirectory. (I.e. all audio devices in /dev/sound/..., all scsi stuff under /dev/scsi/...)
This device filesystem is mounted at /dev during boot, instead of having a /dev directory with special files.
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