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Re: unknown devices being made in boot-floppies



At 00:02 -0700 1999-11-11, Bdale Garbee wrote:
Errors in MAKEDEV.  I'm not sure if someone environmental changed at some
point, or if this is a side-effect of the "be more like RH" patches I applied
a while back.  I'll upload a -31 shortly that fixes these.  Note that 'sonycd'
as a target creates /dev/sonycd, the 'cdu31a' is a red herring and will be
gone with this upload.

I think the problem stems from MAKEDEV using /proc/devices to get certain major numbers. Since those aren't gonna change, I suggest hardcoding the majors instead.
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Joel Klecker (aka Espy)                    Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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