Good question, I didn't even know that was possible; but if the major number was auto-assigned, how would the correct device node be created for it at install time?
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On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 18:40 -0500, Jim C. Brown wrote:
I am curious why qemu just doesn't set the device number to 0 (which would
allow it to be assigned one by the kernel). Or was that feature removed when
devfs was obsoleted?