Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 20 Jan 2001 21:40:09 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Minors remaining in Major 10 ?? |
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Andre Hedrick wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > Regardless if we rip out the entire rule of majors for dev_t, will there > be a service dummy driver to various block-devices? There is a real need > for this if we are going to get full control of the hardware by indirect > access obtain the functionality that I see and need in the near future. >
At this point, I'll allocate a device number when someone is ready to release a driver - no sooner. There simply is not a whole lot of choice because of the extreme shortage of device numbers that's going to last us until dev_t gets expanded.
-hpad
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