Subject: Re: cdev vs. bdev (32 bit dev_t)
To: None <tech-kern@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/13/1998 19:48:18
> I think that, as long as we really only have one layer of abstraction in our
> devsw, we really only need two parts (major and minor). Option flags will
> probabl;y vary in number and use from device to device, and I think they
> should just be encoded into the minor number as bits. ("It's just a little
> bit of binary arithmetic...." :)
not to "ls -l" it's not.