From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 24 17:12:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA29760 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 17:12:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA29751 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 17:12:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.73 #1) id 0xwGN5-0005K7-00; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 16:56:23 -0800 Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 16:56:22 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: Terry Lambert cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: cloning drivers In-Reply-To: <199801250005.RAA12408@usr04.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sun, 25 Jan 1998, Terry Lambert wrote: > I have a cloning pty driver and cloning bfs and tun and vnode > drivers as well. Can it become more generic so that any driver can be cloned? It seems silly to me that I need to recompile the kernel to support an additional (but identical to the first) ethernet card. It seems to me that some of the PCI devices do this somewhat automatically right now? IE. if you added a "device de0", it automatically makes devices de0 to de(N-1) for N DEC ethernet cards? Tom