On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 08:50:10PM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote: > The problem is that there might be some ports whose MAXPARTITIONS is still 8 > and such ports can't use type 8.
Why not? It is not used as a partiton of fd*. MAKEDEV is already wrong for those ports, the fd nodes probably should have special case handling. Martin