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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: 2.5 suggestion
Date: 7 Jan 2002 09:19:52 -0800
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Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.4.43.0201071317340.8864-100000@tchiwam2.invers.fi>
By author:    Philippe Trottier <tchiwam@invers.fi>
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>
> To prevent big confusion after adding or removing hardware (IDE, SCSI,
> Network) would it be possible to assign them an order of detection or
> give them a fixed Major / minor ?
> 

There is no such order possible.  Really.

	-hpa
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