Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 16:43:35 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: list of major device numbers? Message-ID: <199602022343.QAA00880@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199602021005.LAA04712@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Feb 2, 96 11:05:30 am
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> > Ok, we should check this in asap, and it should probably be in 2.1 > > too or SOMEthing.. > > (so that we can keep them in sync) > > What are the plans to dynamicalize the assignment of major numbers? I > think, except for a few ``well-known'' devices that might be important > for the bootstrap, everything else could be handled in a dynamic > scenario. The plans are to replace major numbers with vnode instances generated from device registration information and specific to the reference instance for a given boot sequence, AFAIK. In other words, major and minor number are to be made meaningless. At the same time specfs will either go away entirely or be subsumed by devfs, assuming everything works out correctly. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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