Re: [PATCH] devices.txt bugs

[Hubert Mantel]

Hi,

On Tue, Jan 02, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> This patch fixes two things:
> 
>   - Correct the minor numbers for the frame buffer devices.  We have room for
>     32 frame buffers since about one year, with more room for future expansion
>     to 256.  (promised to go in by HPA on Fri, 24 Mar 2000 01:47:05 -0800).
> 
>   - Fix a typo in the minors for the A2232 serial card
> 
> --- linux-2.4.0-current/Documentation/devices.txt.orig	Mon Jan  1 23:30:06 2001
> +++ linux-2.4.0-current/Documentation/devices.txt	Tue Jan  2 11:16:42 2001
> @@ -660,6 +660,12 @@
>  
>   29 char	Universal frame buffer
>  		  0 = /dev/fb0		First frame buffer
> +		  1 = /dev/fb1		Second frame buffer
> +		    ...
> +		 31 = /dev/fb31		32nd frame buffer
> +
> +		Backward compatibility aliases {2.6}
> +
>  		 32 = /dev/fb1		Second frame buffer

How is this supposed to work? /dev/fb1 can either be 29,1 or 29,32. But
not both at the same time.

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