From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 22 13:35:30 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id NAA04699 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 22 Feb 1995 13:35:30 -0800 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA04693 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 1995 13:35:18 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; id AA08530; Wed, 22 Feb 1995 16:34:47 -0500 Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 16:34:47 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9502222134.AA08530@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert), didier@aida.remcomp.fr, FreeBSD-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: cdev major number for a cyrix driver In-Reply-To: <199502222012.MAA04944@ref.tfs.com> References: <9502221956.AA25725@cs.weber.edu> <199502222012.MAA04944@ref.tfs.com> Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: >> How about hanging the ioctl's off of an existing device, like /dev/kmem? >> > How about: > sysctl cpu.cyrix.cache.foo This would make sense for either the hw.devconf entry for the CPU (as a blob), or else somewhere under machdep. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant