Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 10:33:21 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> Cc: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Simplifying devfs: minor == unit Message-ID: <483C45E1.2040707@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20080527172700.GM64397@hoeg.nl> References: <20080527130615.GJ64397@hoeg.nl> <20080527150244.GN21317@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <483C4358.2050707@elischer.org> <20080527172700.GM64397@hoeg.nl>
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Ed Schouten wrote: > * Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> wrote: >> Make sure that old binaries that expect the minor number sot be on a >> certain format are not broken.. >> >> try run some old 2.2.5 binaries in a 2.2.5 jail with /dev mounted and >> make sure that things like ptys work. > > This should not be a problem. Even though they are called minor numbers, > they must not be confused with the device minor numbers which are shown > in /dev. These are always the same as the inode number of the device. > > The minor numbers which are currently being used inside the kernel have > no actual purpose, but are only there to remain compatible with certain > KPI's. > as long as that is proved to be true..
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