Bigger "dev_t"s

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1023 at murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au> kre at cs.mu.oz.au (Robert Elz) writes:
>yes, what's more maybe we could do away with major *numbers* completely
>and use major *names* instead.

Better yet, have /dev be a special file system of its own (using the
file system switch) that takes care of the details of mapping strings
to driver entries.  I suggested this to DMR some time ago but don't
know if anyone followed up on it.