Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 22:44:05 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> Cc: Mathew Kanner <mat@cnd.mcgill.ca> Subject: Re: What happened to the "d_maj" member of "struct cdevsw" in CURRENT? Message-ID: <42648C95.3010102@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <20050418232455.2d530890@dolphin.local.net> References: <20050418232455.2d530890@dolphin.local.net>
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Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > I've been trying to help Mat Kanner with his yet-to-be-committed MIDI > patches, and have run into a perplexing problem on amd64 CURRENT. It > seems the "d_maj" member of "struct cdevsw" no longer exists (in > sys/sys/conf.h). This is causing Mat's MIDI patches to fail with: > > > >>===> sound/midi (all) >>cc -O -pipe -march=athlon64 -Wno-error -D_KERNEL -DKLD_MODULE >>-nostdinc -I- -include /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CUSTOM/opt_global.h -I. >>-I@ -I@/contrib/altq -I@/../include -finline-limit=8000 -fno-common -g >>-fno-omit-frame-pointer -I/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CUSTOM -mcmodel=kernel >>-mno-red-zone -mfpmath=387 -mno-sse -mno-sse2 -mno-mmx -mno-3dnow >>-msoft-float -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -ffreestanding -Wall >>-Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes >>-Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual >>-fformat-extensions -std=c99 -c >>/usr/src/sys/modules/sound/midi/../../../dev/sound/midi/midi.c >>/usr/src/sys/modules/sound/midi/../../../dev/sound/midi/midi.c:204: >>error: unknown field `d_maj' specified in initializer > > > When was this member removed, and why? And how to work around this? > > Thanks! > Major numbers are now dynamically assigned. The shims for allowing drivers to choose a static major number were removed a few months ago. There is no work-around for this; just don't include the field anymore in 6-current sources. If there is something that thinks it needs explicit knowledge of major numbers, let me know and we can discuss how to fix it. Scott
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