Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:37:40 +0000 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No more new majors, and help loose the old ones... Message-ID: <200302271637.h1RGbeo6040591@grimreaper.grondar.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:37:17 %2B0100." <7590.1046360237@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp writes: > > We now have a facility for autoallocating major numbers for device > drivers at run time. > > We will accept no more allocations in sys/conf/majors, unless very > good and unavoidable circumstances forces a particular device driver > to require a static major number. > > Please help remove entries in sys/conf/majors for which there exists > no software, and convert drivers to use "MAJOR_AUTO" instead of using > static major numbers. > > Thanks in advance! What is a good driver to crib this from? I'll do /dev/(null|zero|random). M -- Mark Murray iumop ap!sdn w,I idlaH To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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