From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 8 23:44:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA12742 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 23:44:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from proxy4.ba.best.com (root@proxy4.ba.best.com [206.184.139.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA12737 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 23:44:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mdean@shellx.best.com) Received: from shellx.best.com (shellx.best.com [206.86.0.11]) by proxy4.ba.best.com (8.8.7/8.8.BEST) with ESMTP id XAA06066 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 23:42:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (mdean@localhost) by shellx.best.com (8.8.6/8.8.3) with SMTP id XAA04417 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 23:42:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 23:42:30 -0700 (PDT) From: mdean To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Major number requested In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I would like to ask for a major number for my dio48s/at-p driver (48 channel digital i/o with change of state interrupt). I don't need it right now as I am not yet done, but I should have most of the work finished within a week. I will be contributing this driver, unless rejected, to the freebsd project. This driver is needed to harness the full potential of the change of state interrupts, this is a rare feature not even found in 2x enpensive comparable boards (such as national instruments pcdio series). This can be used to latch the inputs upon a change and respond to those inputs. For instance it could be very useful in a computerized security system. See http://www.indcompsrc.com/products/data/html/dio48s_at-p.html for more info. I also need to know what kind of man page text I need to go along with this. I have never done any man pages.