>  > 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 :-)

Naw, you'd just have to do a compare and lookup rather than a straight
lookup.   Not a big deal.

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