Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 00:41:27 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (almost) Ready to ditch device major numbers. Message-ID: <xzpbs0ypq3c.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <28750.1046295228@critter.freebsd.dk> (Poul-Henning Kamp's message of "Wed, 26 Feb 2003 22:33:48 %2B0100") References: <28750.1046295228@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes: > We are now (almost) ready to ditch device major numbers if we want to. Sounds like a step in the right direction. > 1) Build a bitmap of registered majors (from conf/majors) at > kernel-compile so the kernel can know which majors we can risk > KLD's to use. We already have a fairly large reserved range that we can draw from (200-252), so this might not be necessary. We also have a range reserved for lkms (32-38) which is unused, AFAIK. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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