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From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
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Subject: Re: device major number
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On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 10:02:56AM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote:
> stupid question, but could'nt (yet) find an answer, im writing a driver,
> so i need a major device number (for -stable), is there a list of assigned
> numbers, and if so where? what's the procedure to 'assigne' one?

The list is in src/sys/conf/majors.  I believe the normal advice is to
use one of the internal ones (200-252) while developing and switch to
a new one when the driver is done.

-- Brooks

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