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In message: <20031130070704.GA64793@funkthat.com>
            John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> writes:
: There are still major numbers for a few devices that may are standard
: (such as zero/null), but not common...

I've already assigned him one.

: > I've read that FreeBSD doesn't use them any more.
: > But we may need it to not interfere with other device
: > drivers in previous releases of FreeBSD.
: 
: so, you are planning do do 4.x and earlier releases of your driver?

Yes.

Warner