From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 28 14:29:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from et-gw.etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [207.252.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24D4437B727; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 14:29:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Received: from dbsys.etinc.com (dbsys.etinc.com [207.252.1.18]) by et-gw.etinc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA24403; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:31:22 GMT (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20010328174417.03752920@mail.etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@mail.etinc.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:46:44 -0500 To: Mike Smith From: Dennis Subject: Re: # of bpf devices Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200103282156.f2SLuLX02266@mass.dis.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 04:56 PM 03/28/2001, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > >It seems that only 256 bpf devices are supported. How painful would > > > > > >it be to increase that number...I assume its an 8bit varable > > > > > >somewhere? > > > > > >Are there other caveats? > > > > > > > > > >It's pretty trivial. Send a patch when you are done. > > > > > > > > I was hoping to get some useful insight before I looked into it..or if > > > > there was a sound reason for not expanding them. Im hopeful someone > > > > brighter will answer. > > > > > >You did. "pretty trival". I.E. will not take much work, and no good > > >reason not to expand them. Since you've said so many times you can hack > > >your own system, sounds like PHK told you what you needed to know. > > > > What a helpful bunch. thanks. > >Just ignore them. I know it's hard, but once you get used to it, it'll >hurt less. Trust me on this one. 8) it doesnt "hurt" at all. Dealing with bitter losers is part of the public experience :-) Thanks for the tip. i'll forward it to the customer who needs it and let him do the work. I've got some more flames to deflect :-) Dennis >Anyway, I just had a quick look, and I think that your basic problem is >that MAKEDEV uses the wrong encoding for devices above 255. This is >fixed in -CURRENT, and if you bring back the unit2minor changes from >there to -STABLE you should be in business. > >If this works, please file a PR so that it gets fixed. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message