Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 20 Jan 2001 14:13:55 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Minors remaining in Major 10 ?? |
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Andre Hedrick wrote: > > HPA, > > Thoughts on granting all block subsystems a general access misc-char minor > to do special service access that can not be down to a given device if it > is open. There are some things you can not do to a device if you are > using its device-point to gain entry. Also do the grab a neighboor and > force the migration to find the desired major/minor is painful. >
Hmmm... this would be better done using a dedicated major (and then minor = block major.) This is something we can do in 2.5 once we have the larger dev_t; at this point, I'd be really hesitant to allocate additional that aren't obligatory.
-hpa
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