From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Feb 26 15:41:32 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92D0637B401 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:41:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 423B543F85 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:41:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 137E75308; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 00:41:27 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (almost) Ready to ditch device major numbers. From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 00:41:27 +0100 In-Reply-To: <28750.1046295228@critter.freebsd.dk> (Poul-Henning Kamp's message of "Wed, 26 Feb 2003 22:33:48 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090014 (Oort Gnus v0.14) Emacs/21.2 (i386--freebsd) References: <28750.1046295228@critter.freebsd.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@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 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