Re: CVS commit: src/etc

[Antti Kantee <pooka%cs.hut.fi@localhost>]

On Sat Sep 13 2008 at 08:37:11 -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
> Antti Kantee <pooka%cs.hut.fi@localhost> writes:
> 
> > On Sat Sep 13 2008 at 08:16:11 -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> >> > Move "makedev cfs" for the vcoda device from MI MAKEDEV.tmpl to
> >> > MD MAKEDEV.conf.  Not all ports have vcoda in their majors.foo files
> >> > and we shouldn't (re)assign major numbers on all ports before 5.0.
> >> >
> >> > Should close PR port-sgimips/38962.
> >> 
> >> OK, but this is really not quite right as vcoda is in fact MI code.
> >> Perhaps I missed the discussion on tech-kern.
> >
> > I can't remember seeing a discussion, but I don't see the point for one
> > either.  It's an imperfect world and sometimes there is no right choice.
> 
> So is there an actual conflict, or a reason not to assign a number?  The

pain-rustique:1:~> grep vcoda /sys/arch/i386/conf/majors.i386 
device-major    vcoda           char 60                 vcoda
pain-rustique:2:~> grep 60 /sys/arch/sgimips/conf/majors.sgimips 
device-major    clockctl        char 60                 clockctl

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