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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, phk@critter.tfs.com
Subject: Re: conf.c and USL copyright at top
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>> tty_conf.c is more interesting.  It could be handled more dynamically
>> like conf.c.  There isn't as much to gain because the analogue of the
>> major numbers -- the line discipline numbers -- can't be avoided because
>> there is no by-name user interface.

>Well, we solved the same thing in VFS with a linker-set...

Linker sets can't be used to sove problems related to magic numbers in
the user interface.

Bruce