Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

[Alan Cox]

> This means that we need some analogue to {get,put}_unnamed_dev that
> manages a range of dynamically allocated majors.
> Is there such a beast already, or does someone need to write it?
> What range(s) should be used for block devices? 
> 
> Am I missing something obvious here?

Obvious question: Do you need your majors to be together in order, or can
you pick 8 random numbers each boot and expect the user to cope ?

Equally if they were static numbers do they have to be together or scattered ?

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