Subject: Re: 32 bit dev_t, Revision 2
To: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@pa.dec.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/11/1998 17:26:26
On Sun, 11 Jan 98 17:03:20 -0800 
 "Chris G. Demetriou" <cgd@pa.dec.com> wrote:

 > If nobody wants to argue about which of the latter choices it should
 > be, then I say let's go for "one table for the whle system," because
 > that would reduce some maintenance hassles a bit.

...if we're going to do that, we'd only be going half-way if we didn't
also make minor numbers for e.g. /dev/mem consistent everywhere.

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