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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Bigger "dev_t"s
Message-ID: <8834@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 9 Nov 88 11:31:10 GMT
References: <156@gloom.UUCP> <6865@winchester.mips.COM> <468@oracle.UUCP> <1988Oct31.183021.13880@utzoo.uucp> <1023@murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1023@murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au> kre@cs.mu.oz.au (Robert Elz) writes:
>yes, what's more maybe we could do away with major *numbers* completely
>and use major *names* instead.

Better yet, have /dev be a special file system of its own (using the
file system switch) that takes care of the details of mapping strings
to driver entries.  I suggested this to DMR some time ago but don't
know if anyone followed up on it.