Subject: Re: Device minor numbers conversion in COMPAT_NETBSD32
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/03/2006 23:50:24
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 04:12:05PM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
> Purely cosmetic? I thought it was done to avoid a flag day in /dev
> when switching from an 8-partition kernel to a 16-partition kernel.
Heh, I think he is talking about amd64 *not* doing the same dance but
using straight numbers (for purely cosmetic reasons ;-})
Martin