From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Feb 27 8:29:22 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 313DA37B401 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 08:29:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.FreeBSD.org.uk [194.242.157.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FE4143FAF for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 08:29:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.org) Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (Ugrondar@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1RGTITp012054; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:29:18 GMT (envelope-from mark@grondar.org) Received: (from Ugrondar@localhost) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) with UUCP id h1RGTHht012053; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:29:17 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: storm.FreeBSD.org.uk: Ugrondar set sender to mark@grondar.org using -f Received: from grondar.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grimreaper.grondar.org (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h1RGHso6040341; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:17:55 GMT (envelope-from mark@grondar.org) From: Mark Murray Message-Id: <200302271617.h1RGHso6040341@grimreaper.grondar.org> To: phk@phk.freebsd.dk Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (almost) Ready to ditch device major numbers. In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Feb 2003 09:51:01 +0100." <4336.1046335861@critter.freebsd.dk> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:17:54 +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG phk@phk.freebsd.dk writes: > > For now the focus is to make sure we don't run out of major numbers, > and for that I don't see why we should not recognize some devices as > sufficiently magic that we will not touch their majors. /dev/null, > and /dev/zero are at the top of my list. You are welcome to add /dev/random. Please ditch the compatability symlink while you are there :-) M -- Mark Murray iumop ap!sdn w,I idlaH To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message