Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 16:46:45 -0700 (MST) From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: Paul Saab <ps@freebsd.org> Cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf majors Message-ID: <20040202164529.U30868@pooker.samsco.home> In-Reply-To: <20040202222516.GA11304@elvis.mu.org> References: <200402022000.i12K0uvl041338@repoman.freebsd.org> <1318.1075755673@critter.freebsd.dk> <20040202220827.GA9448@elvis.mu.org> <20040202222342.GE75671@FreeBSD.org.ua> <20040202222516.GA11304@elvis.mu.org>
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On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Paul Saab wrote: > Ruslan Ermilov (ru@FreeBSD.org) wrote: > > What PHK means is that if this driver is both for 5.x and 4.x, > > then you should only register its major in RELENG_4 -- 5.x > > provides automatic major numbers allocations: > > And it will run in RELENG_4 as well as -current, so it needs a major > number. > > Unless you have a userland app that requires specific knowledge of the major number (and please don't tell me that you are going to follow the broken path of asr(4) here =-), there is no reason to reserve a static major assignment in -current. Scott
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