From owner-freebsd-current Sun May 21 4:25:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF1EA37B5C6 for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 04:25:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk ([158.152.125.33] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12tTrk-000IvH-0V; Sun, 21 May 2000 12:25:52 +0100 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA05098; Sun, 21 May 2000 12:31:42 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 12:31:41 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Mark Murray Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Major device numbers and mem device redesign In-Reply-To: <200005210753.JAA15783@grimreaper.grondar.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 21 May 2000, Mark Murray wrote: > Hi > > I want to commit a new /dev/random RSN, so I'll be needing a major > device; what is the procedure for getting one? I know how to steal one, > but ISTR that this is not how it is done. Just edit sys/conf/majors and claim the next available number. > > Also - Peter said something about the "mem" device needing > to only contain the /dev/mem and /mem/kmem devices, and > /dev/(random|urandom|null|zero) needing to move to MI areas. I have done > this, as KLD's. Who wants to review? I'll take a look. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 20 8442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message