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Date:      Tue, 27 May 2008 21:48:40 +0200
From:      Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
To:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Simplifying devfs: minor == unit
Message-ID:  <20080527194840.GO64397@hoeg.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20080527194823.GT21317@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
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* Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> wrote:
> In fact, I do not understand why you leave the UMINORMASK stuff. It makes
> no sense with the unit =3D=3D minor, IMHO.

That's because the uminor() and umajor() routines operate on user device
numbers (dev_t's). We need to leave those intact, to make things like
the binary compat work.

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 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
 WWW: http://80386.nl/

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