From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 24 22:51:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA17730 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 22:51:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz201.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz201.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA17691 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 22:51:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz201.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id HAA24437; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 07:50:52 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id HAA03314; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 07:50:52 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id HAA01005; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 07:16:32 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604250516.HAA01005@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Character device major numbers. To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 07:16:31 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: dchapes@zeus.leitch.com (Dave Chapeskie) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199604242253.SAA07460@ale.zeus.leitch.com> from "Dave Chapeskie" at Apr 24, 96 06:53:31 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: > With changes like this taking place is there anyplace that documents > the correct way to install a new device driver into the system. For > example for the dev_attach stuff I had to hunt through kernel source to > find examples. It would be nice to have all the defvs and device > registration routines documented somewhere. The devfs functions (well, the publically interesting ones) are covered by section 9 of the manual (the kernel manual). -- 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. ;-)