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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
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Subject: HEADSUP: Converting drivers to dynamic major numbers
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http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/major.patch

(This patch is automatically generated.)

This patch removes the static major device number assignments from
a boatload of device drivers in order to free up some major numbers
which can be assigned dynamically.

I have excluded from this patch:
        .../mem.c
        contrib
        dev/cx (doesn't compile when my script has chewed on it)
        dev/sound (ditto)
        any device which my script didn't recognize.

I'm currently running this patch through a "make universe" and plan
on committing it next saturday (21/2).

If there are drivers which should be excluded from this patch,
please send me an email before thursday and please explain why.

Poul-Henning

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