From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 24 14:52:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA29820 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 14:52:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA29805 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 14:52:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA11804; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 23:52:08 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA29263; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 23:52:08 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id XAA28850; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 23:51:26 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604242151.XAA28850@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Character device major numbers. To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 23:51:25 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: dchapes@zeus.leitch.com (Dave Chapeskie) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199604241631.MAA06404@ale.zeus.leitch.com> from "Dave Chapeskie" at Apr 24, 96 12:31:19 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)