On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Chris Torek wrote:

: I still say the Right Answer is to remove the distinction between
: block and character device numbers.  Note: this does not mean
: "remove the distinction between block and character devices".  I
: mean "remove the distinction between their NUMBERS": block device
: #17 will then always correspond to a character device #17, and vice
: versa.
:
: This works really well.

...but breaks compatibility.

Renumber the conflicting devices and provide compatibility with a kernel
compile switch providing redirects in the old slots, and I'm right with ya.

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