On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Paul A Vixie wrote:

: One thing about these dev_t's that we havn't discussed is how many subparts
: we need.  HP-UX did three part dev_t's years ago, and I see that BSD/OS 3.*
: has done the same (see below).  Is this NetBSD's big opportunity to separate
: the dev_t encoded options from the unit numbers?  Mostly this is a tape dev
: issue but once you have it you get to use it in other ways too.

I think that, as long as we really only have one layer of abstraction in our
devsw, we really only need two parts (major and minor).  Option flags will
probabl;y vary in number and use from device to device, and I think they
should just be encoded into the minor number as bits.  ("It's just a little
bit of binary arithmetic...."  :)

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