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On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 04:12:05PM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
> >> - keep new dev numbers strictly in sync (like sparc and sparc64 do)
> > i think this is the crux of the problem; for a purely cosmetic reason
> > a different device format was chosen.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> Of course, you may consider that "purely cosmetic".  Personally, I'm
> inclined to agree, but I suspect a lot of relatively Unix-na=EFve users
> would disagree.

The choice was cosmetic for the amd64 port.  And that's what bitting us
now.

--=20
Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org
"When I find the controls, I'll go where I like, I'll know where I want
to be, but maybe for now I'll stay right here on a silent sea."
KT Tunstall, Silent Sea, Eye to the Telescope, 2004.

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