From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 3 00:21:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA08290 for current-outgoing; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 00:21:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA08279 for ; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 00:21:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA25421 for ; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 09:21:34 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA23498 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 09:21:33 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id JAA08609 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 09:16:40 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199602030816.JAA08609@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: list of major device numbers? To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 09:16:40 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199602022239.OAA16197@ref.tfs.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Feb 2, 96 02:39:03 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Julian Elischer wrote: > > > What are the plans to dynamicalize the assignment of major numbers? I > 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.. So we should reserve the first 20 numbers for fixed ones, and convert all but the critical drivers to no longer using a fixed one. Should we? -- 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. ;-)