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Date:      Wed, 24 Apr 1996 23:51:25 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Cc:        dchapes@zeus.leitch.com (Dave Chapeskie)
Subject:   Re: Character device major numbers.
Message-ID:  <199604242151.XAA28850@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199604241631.MAA06404@ale.zeus.leitch.com> from "Dave Chapeskie" at Apr 24, 96 12:31:19 pm

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As Dave Chapeskie wrote:

>     The company I work for is using FreeBSD a new product.  We've written
> three device drivers to support some custom cards that the product needs
> to use.  The problem is that there is only one reserved cdev major
> number.

>     What do you think?  Is there a better solution?

Yes, ``devfs''.

There's still a lot of work in front of us before it will be
production level quality, but we are positive to have it running in
2.2R.  With a few exceptions, fixed major number assignments should be
past then.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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