From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 28 13:57:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D90B37B71A for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 13:57:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2SLuLX02266; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 13:56:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200103282156.f2SLuLX02266@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Dennis Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: # of bpf devices In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 28 Mar 2001 16:58:07 EST." <5.0.0.25.0.20010328165743.03e98220@mail.etinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 13:56:21 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > >It seems that only 256 bpf devices are supported. How painful would > > > > >it be to increase that number...I assume its an 8bit varable > > > > >somewhere? > > > > >Are there other caveats? > > > > > > > >It's pretty trivial. Send a patch when you are done. > > > > > > I was hoping to get some useful insight before I looked into it..or if > > > there was a sound reason for not expanding them. Im hopeful someone > > > brighter will answer. > > > >You did. "pretty trival". I.E. will not take much work, and no good > >reason not to expand them. Since you've said so many times you can hack > >your own system, sounds like PHK told you what you needed to know. > > What a helpful bunch. thanks. Just ignore them. I know it's hard, but once you get used to it, it'll hurt less. Trust me on this one. 8) Anyway, I just had a quick look, and I think that your basic problem is that MAKEDEV uses the wrong encoding for devices above 255. This is fixed in -CURRENT, and if you bring back the unit2minor changes from there to -STABLE you should be in business. If this works, please file a PR so that it gets fixed. Thanks, Mike -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message