Subject: general query, puzzlement
To: None <port-alpha@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 10/02/1996 12:02:03 
(new in this part of the kernel space for NetBSD- just catching up
on the flavor differences.......)

I see from param.h that while a dev_t is 32 bits, a minor
device still is at 8 bits.

Is this right?

Why?