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Date:      Thu, 27 Feb 2003 10:43:58 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_conf.c src/sys/sys conf.h
Message-ID:  <20030227184358.GC7206@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <200302271446.h1REkpIk085846@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200302271446.h1REkpIk085846@repoman.freebsd.org>

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* Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org> [030227 06:47] wrote:
> phk         2003/02/27 06:46:51 PST
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sys/kern             kern_conf.c 
>     sys/sys              conf.h 
>   Log:
>   
>   Major numbers are not reclaimed, so loading/unloading the same
>   device driver which uses MAJOR_AUTO will eventually deplete the
>   pool of free major numbers and the system will panic when it can
>   not allocate one.  Still undecided who to invonvenience with the
>   solution to this.

Perhaps if you remebered the name assigned and it came back again you
could assign the old major?

-Alfred

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