Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 23:51:25 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: dchapes@zeus.leitch.com (Dave Chapeskie) Subject: Re: Character device major numbers. Message-ID: <199604242151.XAA28850@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199604241631.MAA06404@ale.zeus.leitch.com> from "Dave Chapeskie" at Apr 24, 96 12:31:19 pm
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As Dave Chapeskie wrote: > The company I work for is using FreeBSD a new product. We've written > three device drivers to support some custom cards that the product needs > to use. The problem is that there is only one reserved cdev major > number. > What do you think? Is there a better solution? Yes, ``devfs''. There's still a lot of work in front of us before it will be production level quality, but we are positive to have it running in 2.2R. With a few exceptions, fixed major number assignments should be past then. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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