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 notion that we shouldn't assign major numbers before 5.0 seems tenuous, and moving a MI device to MD files seems much more intrusive, plus it leaves mess to be cleaned up later. I don't see any reason vcoda has to have the same major on all platforms - venus (coda user-space daemon) just opens /dev/cfs0 so it doesn't care.
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