From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 8 01:25:01 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id BAA28980 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 8 Nov 1995 01:25:01 -0800 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA28955 for ; Wed, 8 Nov 1995 01:24:34 -0800 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id JAA06735; Wed, 8 Nov 1995 09:18:49 GMT From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199511080918.JAA06735@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Would like cdev major for driver... To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 09:18:48 +0000 () Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199511080904.KAA17095@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Nov 8, 95 10:04:36 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1043 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch stands accused of saying: > I'd suggest you picking the next available cdev # (72 by now), and > submit the driver. The one who's going to commit it will have to > watch for the conflict. That's what I'm using now, but I haven't checked -current to see whether it's used there. (looks... nope. Ok, dibs on 72 8) > I think it's too late to make the reservation in 2.1, you probably > have to stick with the ``generic'' number there. I wasn't worrying about getting the driver 'into' 2.1, I just wanted a number that wouldn't conflict with someone bringing a 2.2 driver back, or with someone else offering an aftermarket 2.1 driver. > cheers, J"org -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[