Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:38:24 -0300 From: daniel_sobral@voga.com.br To: julian@whistle.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Device Driver Message-ID: <83256584.00604E1E.00@papagaio.voga.com.br>
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> > * Regarding major/minor number (I don't quite grok > > that yet), may I suppose the script did the right > > thing (current system)? > for now, yes.. > it will have assigned you the 'experimental device' number. The driver is for a very unusual device (a cryptography card), and I don't know if it will be released under Berkeley license (I'm writing it for someone else). Should I just leave it with the experimental device number after having finished it or what? > Minor numbers are so a device driver can tell apart it's devices. > Major numbers are so the system can tell which driver to assign > to the device. Is this in any man page? So concise... :-) And, btw, what happens when devfs becomes the name of the game? -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) Daniel_Sobral@voga.com.br
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