In article <20031113075503.A1838@snowdrop.l8s.co.uk>,
David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> wrote:
>> If people think that this is too tacky, there's a compromise: have
>> MAKEDEV create /dev/vinum/control, and have vinum create the volumes
>> with the same major number.
>
>Sounds better to me - given 'we' haven't written a devfs yet to the
>driver can't generate the entries.

That sounds better to me too. To my knowledge this is the only hard-coded
device number in userland right now.

christos