Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1999-23,: Re: Migrating to larger numbers

# Re: Migrating to larger numbers

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Sun, 06 Jun 1999 10:55:19 -0700

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Riley Williams wrote:
>
> I've just had a look at the Documentation/devices.txt file included
> with kernel 2.2.9, and the obvious solution based on that file would
> be to swap the definitions of majors 0 and 42 over. For reference,
> here are the relevant definitions therein:
>

That probably would be a bad choice. I would assign a virgin major
instead, or perhaps recycle major 128 (majors 128-135 are kept internal
to the kernel, and hence aren't so critical. We only need two majors
when we have more minors, anyhow.)

-hpa

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