From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 7 12:32:46 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 B2E3D37B401 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 12:32:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from herbelot.dyndns.org (herbelot.net1.nerim.net [62.212.117.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6162243F85 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 12:32:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Received: from diversion.herbelot.nom (diversion.herbelot.nom [192.168.2.6]) by herbelot.dyndns.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h17KOk0f003327; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 21:24:46 +0100 (CET) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Thierry Herbelot To: "Kevin Oberman" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to create a device in current Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 21:32:21 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <20030207202434.CFE885D04@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: <20030207202434.CFE885D04@ptavv.es.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200302072132.21675.thierry@herbelot.com> 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 Le Friday 07 February 2003 21:24, Kevin Oberman a écrit : > I maintain a port for FreeBSD that I am trying to fix to run on > V5. The port is the mWave modem software for some IBM laptop internal > modems and it needs to create a /dev entry which I previously did with > a simple mknod. This doesn't work under 5.0, so I am trying to figure > out how to get the device node created in the rc script for the port. > > The command I used in V4 is mknod "/dev/mwave c 96 0". Where so I read > up on creating something like this with devfs? > could this paper be relevant : (it may require some rewriting of the device driver code) TfH To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message