> If nothing else, the device number wasn't registered and conflicts with
> the Cyclades driver in the main distribution.
You're wrong on both counts. It was registered (see
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt) and does not conflict with
the Cyclades driver because block and character devices have different
"numberspaces."
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