From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Oct 18 01:21:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA04219 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 18 Oct 1997 01:21:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id BAA04207 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 1997 01:21:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA06998; Sat, 18 Oct 1997 10:21:11 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id KAA12623; Sat, 18 Oct 1997 10:11:21 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19971018101121.RL23200@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 10:11:21 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: PBozeman@lbl.gov Subject: Re: device major id list References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Pat Bozeman on Oct 13, 1997 18:04:46 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Pat Bozeman wrote: > Is there a list of devices and their major id numbers someplace? /sys/i386/conf/majors.i386 Note that this list might reduce some day to only the hard-coded major #'s once DEVFS is the norm, and automatic assignment can take place. The list will probably only contain device majors then that are shared with the bootstrap code or have another good reason for being hard-coded. -- 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. ;-)