Re: Migrating to larger numbers

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Tue, 8 Jun 1999 15:46:50 +0200


Matt Aubury wrote:
> -- Do dynamic major allocation in the usual way.

Can you do reliable dynamic major allocation?

I didn't see any majors reserved for this.
The major you pick might be one that is statically allocated by
a device to be loaded later.

Like your SCSI CD writer or the sound card or VMware's driver or the
printer or the modem... (etc)

-- Jamie

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