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Hi,
>> I suspect that the current problem was inherited from the original
>> bug(s) on the linux side.
>
>I don't think so. I had no problems whatsoever with a very old Linux
>2.0.29 kernel (that I used to boostrap the Hurd).
I am not quite sure what patch for what version of linux
contained the tweaking of these device major/minor number macros, but
I distinctively recall Alan Cox's mail discussing the topic and
I thought it is related to the problem at hand.
(2.2.x maybe.) Sorry again, I don't have time to look through the
patch files to see where it occurred:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2/patch*
Come to think of it, though, depending on how the linux driver interface on the
Mach/Hurd was developed, the linux problem fixed by patch in the 2.2.x
series may not be shared by the hurd part at all.
(As you suggested that 2.0.y may not have this particular problem, and
hurd code may have been based on 2.0.y...)
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