From owner-freebsd-current Sun May 21 8:21:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D5A837B57D for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 08:21:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@c06-197.006.popsite.net [64.24.38.197]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA81053; Sun, 21 May 2000 08:21:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id IAA55190; Sun, 21 May 2000 08:21:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 08:21:37 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Mark Murray Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Major device numbers and mem device redesign Message-ID: <20000521082137.A55073@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <200005210753.JAA15783@grimreaper.grondar.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200005210753.JAA15783@grimreaper.grondar.za>; from mark@grondar.za on Sun, May 21, 2000 at 09:53:18AM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 09:53:18AM +0200, Mark Murray wrote: > I want to commit a new /dev/random RSN, so I'll be needing a major > device; Why can't you just rip out the existing random stuff and put in your new stuff -- keeping the major and minor numbers the same? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) Disclaimer: Not speaking for FreeBSD, just expressing my own opinion. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message