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Date:      Tue, 21 Jan 1997 21:50:14 +0100
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Request for Major Device number
Message-ID:  <Mutt.19970121215014.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199701210828.AAA00562@rah.star-gate.com>; from Amancio Hasty on Jan 21, 1997 00:28:00 -0800
References:  <199701210828.AAA00562@rah.star-gate.com>

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As Amancio Hasty wrote:

> I am getting ready to release a new video capture driver for 
> Brooktree's bt848 PCI chipset. Can I get a major device for 
> my device driver?

That's the end of /sys/i386/conf/majors.i386:

75      stli            Stallion (intelligent cdk based) (gerg@stallion.oz.au)
76      scc             IBM Smart Capture Card (ohashi@mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp)
77      cyy             Cyclades Ye/PCI serial card
78      gd              Geometry disk

So it seems 79 will be the next one.

Since you need to #define it at the beginning of your driver anyway
(gee, maybe somebody will write a devfs_next_major() some day?), it
shouldn't be a bid deal to change this later.

-- 
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. ;-)



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