From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 27 7:37:20 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E17837B401 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 07:37:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D55643FE5 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 07:37:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1RFbHaa007591 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:37:17 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) To: current@freebsd.org Subject: No more new majors, and help loose the old ones... From: Poul-Henning Kamp Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:37:17 +0100 Message-ID: <7590.1046360237@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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! -- 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-current" in the body of the message