On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 09:04:09AM -0400, Andrew Brown wrote:
> >> what if the b and c device entries for the hard disks went to new
> >> major numbers, with the old majors still active for a release or two?
> >> surely the drivers don't care...do they?
> >
> >Why only b and c ? We need a new major number for each supported disk.
> 
> b and c is supposed to mean "block" and "character".  i have no idea

Ok, I understood it as /dev/wd0b and /dev/wd0c :)

> why was being so terse when i wrote that.  and yes, after some more
> thought, i can see that it would not just be wd and sd devices, but
> also ccd, fd, raid, cd, mcd, and md.

And maybe some others.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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