Re: USB device allocation
Khimenko Victor (khim@sch57.msk.ru)
Fri, 8 Oct 1999 18:15:54 +0400 (MSD)
In <37FD3E6C.98A96363@cs.net.pl> Martin Dalecki (dalecki@cs.net.pl) wrote:
> Aaron T Porter wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Martin Dalecki wrote:
>>
>> > > OK, I'll bite. Gimme 1024 serial ports. Yesterday.
>> > > That is 2048 devices (standard).
>> > > Easy with devfs, pretty convoluted with dynamic major numbers.
>> >
>> > ? This is an academic exercise. You are not going to tell there is such
>> > a box
>> > out there? BTW if you didn't hear it before /dev/cuxx's are obsolete.
>>
>> I've seen (and used) SGI Origin boxes with hundreds (I admin'ed a
>> 512 serial port box), and I'm fairly certain one of the boxes had
>> an even 1024.
> I'm scared! But let me guess it was all running fine withouth devfs
> but with longer dev_t?
SGI has some analog of devfs :-)
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