From owner-cvs-all Thu Feb 27 10:44: 3 2003 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84C2E37B401; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 10:44:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDB9143FCB; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 10:43:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@elvis.mu.org) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id CA54DAE300; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 10:43:58 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 10:43:58 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Poul-Henning Kamp 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> References: <200302271446.h1REkpIk085846@repoman.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200302271446.h1REkpIk085846@repoman.freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Poul-Henning Kamp [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