Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 10:43:58 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org> Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_conf.c src/sys/sys conf.h Message-ID: <20030227184358.GC7206@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <200302271446.h1REkpIk085846@repoman.freebsd.org> References: <200302271446.h1REkpIk085846@repoman.freebsd.org>
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* Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org> [030227 06:47] wrote: > phk 2003/02/27 06:46:51 PST > > Modified files: > sys/kern kern_conf.c > sys/sys conf.h > Log: > > Major numbers are not reclaimed, so loading/unloading the same > device driver which uses MAJOR_AUTO will eventually deplete the > pool of free major numbers and the system will panic when it can > not allocate one. Still undecided who to invonvenience with the > solution to this. Perhaps if you remebered the name assigned and it came back again you could assign the old major? -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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