From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 26 10:49:40 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B195C37B401 for ; Sat, 26 Apr 2003 10:49:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail0.ewetel.de (mail0.ewetel.de [212.6.122.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6613B43FAF for ; Sat, 26 Apr 2003 10:49:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Thomas.Wintergerst@nord-com.net) Received: from kalak.lemur.nord.de (dialin-80-228-57-071.ewe-ip-backbone.de [80.228.57.71]) by mail0.ewetel.de (8.12.1/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h3QHnWru010956; Sat, 26 Apr 2003 19:49:34 +0200 (MEST) Received: from nord-com.net (lullog.lemur.nord.de [192.168.2.4]) by kalak.lemur.nord.de (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h3QHY4MX009966; Sat, 26 Apr 2003 19:34:08 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Thomas.Wintergerst@nord-com.net) Message-ID: <3EAAC30C.1010803@nord-com.net> Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 19:34:04 +0200 From: Thomas Wintergerst User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20030104 X-Accept-Language: de-de, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hackers@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CheckCompat: OK cc: Hellmuth Michaelis Subject: Request for a new major character device number X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 17:49:41 -0000 Hi all, I need an "official" major device number for the CAPI subsystem for *BSD. The file "/usr/src/sys/conf/majors" states that I should contact this list to obtain a reserved major device number. The device number should be useable in 5.0-RELEASE and earlier releases. As You may have noticed by watching the the mailing list "freebsd-isdn@freebsd.org" I wrote a package for CAPI support for FreeBSD. For those not familiar with this term: CAPI is the "Common ISDN API", the standard interface to communicate over ISDN with ISDN boards. The device number is needed to link the kernel CAPI manager and its attached device drivers with userspace applications. Maybe Hellmuth Michaelis, maintainer of I4B, already sent out this request. I am in contact with him to integrate the CAPI subsystem into "current". -- Gruss, Thomas Wintergerst