On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Stephen Costaras wrote:

> Geeze!  I created those files so long ago I never even thought to look
> at them.  Now I noticed that both /dev/sdi[1-8] & /dev/sdj[1-8] (as well
> as everything up to /dev/sdn* have the SAME MINOR numbers.  (128).
> 
> Found the problem in MAKEDEV and re-genned those files.  AMAZING how good
> things work when everything is configured correctly.

yet another argument for devfs: there it's impossible to 'mess up' device
file namespace (from user-space ;), as it's created by the driver itself.

-- mingo

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