From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 27 9: 6:29 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 6CE3637B407 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 09:06:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.FreeBSD.org.uk [194.242.157.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A24D43FBF for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 09:06:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.org) Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (Ugrondar@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1RH6QTp012830; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 17:06:26 GMT (envelope-from mark@grondar.org) Received: (from Ugrondar@localhost) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) with UUCP id h1RH6Pgt012829; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 17:06:25 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: storm.FreeBSD.org.uk: Ugrondar set sender to mark@grondar.org using -f Received: from grondar.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grimreaper.grondar.org (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h1RGbeo6040591; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:37:41 GMT (envelope-from mark@grondar.org) From: Mark Murray Message-Id: <200302271637.h1RGbeo6040591@grimreaper.grondar.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No more new majors, and help loose the old ones... In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:37:17 +0100." <7590.1046360237@critter.freebsd.dk> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:37:40 +0000 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 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