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To: Andrew Gordon <arg@arg1.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: lpt - newbus breakage? 
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 29 Aug 2000 13:08:50 BST."
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Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 12:41:05 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008291234240.10981-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk> Andrew Gordon writes:
: but full coverage of the combinations of the 4 option bits would need 16
: such entries.  Even omitting combinations that have no obvious use gives
: 7 entries.  Is this how things are meant to be done?  What about drivers
: that pack a ton of info into the minor device?

They manage their device space.  7 devices is OK since devfs doesn't
tend to have as many entries in /dev as traditional static tables
because it is dynamic and has only what is on the system.

Warner


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