From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 24 1:19:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from urban.iinet.net.au (urban.iinet.net.au [203.59.24.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 514F837B65E for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 01:19:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from gothic.iinet.net.au (gothic.iinet.net.au [203.59.24.252]) by urban.iinet.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA19678; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 16:18:56 +0800 Received: from jules.elischer.org (reggae-01-187.nv.iinet.net.au [203.59.62.187]) by gothic.iinet.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA25465; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 16:18:53 +0800 Message-ID: <390402D3.41C67EA6@elischer.org> Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 01:16:19 -0700 From: Julian Elischer X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Boris Popov Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for the major device number References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Boris Popov wrote: > > Hello, > > in the near future I'm going to release beta > version of native, > kernel side SMB/CIFS filesytem for FreeBSD. It uses > device /dev/net/nsmbX > for the userland <-> kernel interaction. Currently it uses > major number > assigned to the 'joystick' device which can make some > peoples unhappy :). Can you explain a little more, what interaction there is between the userland and kernel that requires the device? (I am truely curious, and not trying be difficult) -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ julian@elischer.org ( OZ ) World tour 2000 ---> X_.---._/ presently in: Perth v To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message