Subject: Re: PR 4094 (really about FreeBSD's approach to one aspect of the DDI/DKI)
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: current-users
Date: 12/12/1998 10:29:55 
>> unless you renumber all device tables
> Talk about a flag day for compatibility, eeew.  But it would be a
> VERY nice thing to have one set of major numbers across all ports,

And then what for binary compatability?  Do you just pray nothing
depends on major numbers, or do you provide a mapping table for
processes running under compatability mode?

					der Mouse

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