More leaves on the device tree ?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20071222.234526.246317277.imp at bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes:
>In message: <200712202005.33263.hselasky at c2i.net>
>            Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky at c2i.net> writes:
>: "make_dev" takes an additional "device_t parent_device" argument and creates a 
>: child device with some magic flags set.
>
>What do you do for all the devices in /dev/ for which there is no
>device_t parent?

I second Warners comments here.

device_t is a handle for a hardware, dev_t is for a device in /dev,
they are very different thing and have no reasonable mapping between
them ([0..N]:[0..M])

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