From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 27 9:34:28 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 E961137B401 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 09:34:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.tcoip.com.br (erato.tco.net.br [200.220.254.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91C6943F93 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 09:34:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@tcoip.com.br) Received: from tcoip.com.br ([10.0.2.6]) by mail.tcoip.com.br (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h1RHWv918101; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 14:32:57 -0300 Message-ID: <3E5E4BC8.3080001@tcoip.com.br> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 14:32:56 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030214 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, pt-br, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Murray Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No more new majors, and help loose the old ones... References: <200302271637.h1RGbeo6040591@grimreaper.grondar.org> In-Reply-To: <200302271637.h1RGbeo6040591@grimreaper.grondar.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) Gerencia de Operacoes Divisao de Comunicacao de Dados Coordenacao de Seguranca TCO Fones: 55-61-313-7654/Cel: 55-61-9618-0904 E-mail: Daniel.Capo@tco.net.br Daniel.Sobral@tcoip.com.br dcs@tcoip.com.br Outros: dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@notorious.bsdconspiracy.net Never frighten a small man -- he'll kill you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message