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From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
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Subject: Re: list of major device numbers?
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 14:39:03 -0800 (PST)
Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199602021005.LAA04712@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Feb 2, 96 11:05:30 am
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> 
> As Julian Elischer wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Here's the list I have so far:
> > 
> > Ok, we should check this in asap, and it should probably be in 2.1
> > too or SOMEthing..
> > (so that we can keep them in sync)
> 
> What are the plans to dynamicalize the assignment of major numbers?  I
> think, except for a few ``well-known'' devices that might be important
> for the bootstrap, everything else could be handled in a dynamic
> scenario.
if you specify (-1?) it will dynamically assign you one,
but I need to change this so that it statrs at a higher number
so as to not collide with devices that already statically
have a spot..

of course you MUST have a devfs to make this work,
(or have the modload program return the new major number)

> 
> -- 
> 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. ;-)
>