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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_conf.c uipc_socket2.c
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Bruce Evans wrote:
> 
> >  There should be at most one majors.h file.  Drivers don't need to know
> >  their own numbers, but kern_conf.c needs to know until the numbers go
> 
> >Yes they do!  That's the rub.  Lots of things in drivers call makedev(). :-(
> 
> In 2.1.5, only 3 or 4 console drivers call   All the other
> calls in -current are to use the braindamaged [bc]devsw_add() interfaces.

those interfaces were kept compatible with the version in OSF1
amd Terry's original LKM system versions.. I envision that once 
things have progressed beyond a certain point, most of those 
makedev() entries will initially be ignored and then removed.


>
> Bruce