Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 14:32:56 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No more new majors, and help loose the old ones... Message-ID: <3E5E4BC8.3080001@tcoip.com.br> In-Reply-To: <200302271637.h1RGbeo6040591@grimreaper.grondar.org> References: <200302271637.h1RGbeo6040591@grimreaper.grondar.org>
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Mark Murray wrote:
> 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).
Heh. null and zero are two drivers phk is considering keeping fixed
majors for. :-)
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