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To: Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com>
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Subject: Re: How to create a device in current 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 07 Feb 2003 21:32:21 +0100."
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Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 12:39:13 -0800
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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> From: Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com>
> Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 21:32:21 +0100
> 
> Le Friday 07 February 2003 21:24, Kevin Oberman a =E9crit :
> > 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 :=20
> <http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bsdcon02/full_pap=
> ers/kamp/kamp_html/index.html>
> 
> (it may require some rewriting of the device driver code)

Thanks, Thierry. Looks interesting. Hopefully it will let me fix up
the driver to work with 5.0.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634

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