Re: [PATCH] devices.txt bugs

[H. Peter Anvin]

Hubert Mantel wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

The idea is that you're supposed to change your /dev nodes; the old /dev
nodes are supported for a bit.  The device list has been updated.

	-hpa

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