On Sun, 11 Jan 1998 16:35:57 -0800 
 Ted Lemon <mellon@hoffman.vix.com> wrote:

 > How is this better than just starting the MI major device numbers at
 > zero and counting up, and starting the MD major device numbers at N
 > and counting down (where N is the maximum major device number)?

...well, the table would be really big, for one :-)

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