> - All of the API's which use major/minor numbers need to be duplicated and
> a new one created to support legacy code using the 8/8 split
The userspace API already is clean here.
> - Most subsystems use an array of 256 entries to determine which minor
> number goes to which device. This will have to be rewritten to work
> correctly
Almost none use arrays like that. The ones that do are fairly slack (like
videodev which hey I wrote I admit to being lazy). A generic list is easy
(its even in misc.c)
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