On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 01:45:31AM -0500, a little birdie told me
that Brian Fundakowski Feldman remarked
> The way certain devices, like cd with its monotonically increasing counter
> where devices are probed in order and assigned device based on precedence
> and not hardwiring/controller connection, work is consistent between
> the kernel and MAKEDEV. If you have 2 cd devices, you have cd0 and cd1,
> so MAKEDEV accepts "cd2" for "two cd devices". All CD devices work
> that way. Disks don't, because there is potential for hard-wiring
> there, and will often be gaps.
FWIW, MAKEDEV for vty's (and pty's too? dunno) works the same.
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