On Tue, 13 Aug 96 11:03:05 EDT 
 Mike Long <mike.long@analog.com> wrote:

 > If it needs an entry in cdevsw, you also have to assign it a major
 > device number:
 > 
 > major	{foo = 29}
 > 
 > The major number is an index to the entry in cdevsw[].  I'm not sure
 > how block device major numbers are assigned.

Err, I thought the major keyword was for block devices, so that config(8) 
could generate the appopriate makedev() calls if you say, for example:

	config netbsd root foo0

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