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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!nott!bnrgate!bnr.co.uk!uknet!pipex!sunic!psinntp!psinntp!uuneo!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Naming convention for tty-like devices Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Thu, 20 May 1993 09:38:12 GMT Message-ID: <C7BK3p.CvG@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> References: <C6q296.3D9@BitBlocks.com> <C6uvsI.9uo@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> <DERAADT.93May11133023@newt.fsa.ca> Lines: 19 In article <DERAADT.93May11133023@newt.fsa.ca> deraadt@fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt) writes: > 1. There isn't enough room in the minor number. Make the minor number bigger. > You need to have 3 bits worth of lun, 3 bits worth of scsi id, 3 bits > worth of partition information, and i figure 2 bits of controller number. 3 bits isn't enough for partition information, really. The minor number is already too small. > 2. There would need to be many more files in /dev You only need to actually create the files for devices that actually exist. -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Har du kramat din varg idag? 'U` "Det er min ledsager, det er ikke drikkepenge."