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Date:      Sun, 10 Jan 1999 17:28:19 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Alex Le Heux <alexlh@funk.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: defs and dynamic majors 
Message-ID:  <20523.915985699@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 10 Jan 1999 14:06:29 %2B0100." <3698A5D5.7ED3C61D@funk.org> 

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In message <3698A5D5.7ED3C61D@funk.org>, Alex Le Heux writes:
>Hi,
>
>Am I correct in assuming that devfs is eventually going to replace /dev?
>
>If it is, shouldn't it also be able to dynamically allocate major device
>numbers to for example kld-loaded devices?

There will be no major number in the end, so this is a transient problem.

Eventually you will register a void*+int pair with each node and use
those to recover softc and unit no.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!

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