> > Chris D> I've looked at the problem (twice in fact), and did not find
> > Chris D> an 'easy' or 'nice' solution either time...
> > 
> > How about generating makedev(x, y * MAXPARTITIONS + z) in swapnetbsd.c
> > instead of precalculating the 2nd arg?  I mean MAXPARTITIONS literally
> > here, not the value of the system config.new is built upon.  Then when
> > compiling the kernel, the target machine MAXPARTITIONS will be used,
> > just like it should be.
> 
> This is from memory:
> 
> Basically the problem was that the numbers are calculated early and then
> stored and manipulated that way all over the place.  For 1.0 I basically
> took the number, un-"manipulated" it and then generated something similar
> to the above.  It was a hack but we needed a quick fix.

also, it's significantly complicated by the fact that one can
explicitly specify a major/minor number pair for the device, rather
than a name...


chris