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Subject: Re: Backwards compatibiliy for isa_driver 
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>I still don't understand.  All the entries for different major numbers
>would then have a different type:
>
>	char:3:wd
>	char:13:sd
>	char:29:mcd
>
>I hate major numbers anyway.  Devfs should dynamically allocate majors and
>everyone should use devfs.  That means making devfs work properly...

If devfs is brought to work correctly, there will not even be a concept
of major/minor numbers anymore... 

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