Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 07:09:13 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: now that DEVFS is standard.... Message-ID: <55519.982130953@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Feb 2001 22:02:36 PST." <Pine.LNX.4.21.0102132159120.21365-100000@zeppo.feral.com>
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In message <Pine.LNX.4.21.0102132159120.21365-100000@zeppo.feral.com>, Matthew Jacob writes: > >> In message <Pine.LNX.4.21.0102131839460.21365-100000@zeppo.feral.com>, Matthew >> Jacob writes: >> > >> >....Can we now have wildcarded major numbers for creating devices? >> > >> >I mean, now that we have the name just appear each time you boot, the actual >> >major number is not all that relevant now, is it? >> >> Weeeeeeell, devfs is default, but not mandatory so we still support >> running !devfs systems, and unfortunately I suspect we will do so >> for some time still. > >How about us having a 'range' of numbers, so we can do things like: I plan to implement support for dynamic assignment in the devfs case, so that it doesn't matter what major the driver ask for, but a driver which doesn't ask for something sensible will fail to operate on a !devfs system... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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