Re: [linux-fbdev] fbdev minor and major numbers, which file to believe, and other stuff

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > Ugh...
> > 
> > If you use the old minors, you'll see a warning printed on the console.
> 
> That's how i noticed this, will be filling a bug against the dbeian makedev
> package, unless you want to do it. When was this change done (so i can give
> more advanced info about this).

Go ahead! The change is about 1 year old. Support for the old minors will
disappear in early 2.5.x.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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