Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 01:53:08 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for Major Device number Message-ID: <199701220953.BAA03674@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 Jan 1997 21:50:14 %2B0100." <Mutt.19970121215014.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Great, I am glad to all agree on the new major number , crw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 79, 0 Dec 9 05:16 /dev/bktr Please note the date in which it was created, I will announce my driver on Friday. Tnks, Amancio >From The Desk Of J Wunsch : > 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.j p) > 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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