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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:32:41 +0200
From: Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de>
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Hello,

Am 19.04.2011 11:05, schrieb Alexander Holler:

>> Implementationwise I think I would have gone for allocating a new device
>> and range of 256 minors - that would avoid the funky stuff setting what
>> it fills with as you'd just fill with the minor number.
>
> I thought about that too, but that would have been to easy (and static). ;)
>
> And the usage of file descriptors was the only idea I've come up with,
> which is multitasking and multiuser aware.

If I add the possibility to use minors to set the default value (but 
still leave the possibility to change the default dynamically), would 
that raise the chance to become included? ;)

Regards,

Alexander
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