Subject: Re: 32 bit dev_t, Revision 3
To: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@pa.dec.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/12/1998 22:18:21
On Sun, 11 Jan 98 19:45:12 -0800 
 "Chris G. Demetriou" <cgd@pa.dec.com> wrote:

 > Nobody's argued against it, so why not make there be One True Device
 > Table (for _all_ ports)?

Well, some ports (e.g. pmax) have boatloads of things in their devsw, so
does the sun3 port ... Why would the e.g. pc532 port want to deal with
that?  (or, the hp300 port, for that matter :-)

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