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From: rgrimes@agora.rain.com (Rodney Grimes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: New kernel on rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk
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Date: 26 Dec 92 11:40:00 GMT
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>This driver is now currently set up as major device 16 in the kernel
>on rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk.

>Anyone think there is a call for a central "person" who gives out
>major device numbers to those developing device drivers?

Absolutely, and here is my request for a dev number for the fd device
(All the support is there it is just missing from the cdev table and
the /dev/MAKEDEV has it at 53 wich is way wrong (unless you are running
BSD4.3 on a vax!!)  I have assigned it a number on my system and it works
fine (fixes make tags in the source tree and things that use /dev/stdin,
/dev/stdout)

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Rod Grimes						rgrimes@agora.rain.com
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