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Date:      Wed, 18 Oct 1995 23:42:30 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        brian@MediaCity.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: device number for watchdog board driver
Message-ID:  <199510182242.XAA11564@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199510182052.NAA00890@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Oct 18, 95 01:52:14 pm

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As Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
> Contact Julian Elisher for documentation on the devfs device export
> interface.  Device numbers should no longer be assigned.

Until devfs is really ready for prime time, i disagree.

Brian, find somebody out of the ~ 50 commiters who would be willing to
"mentor" your driver, and have him assigne you a major # by simply
allocating that slot, and commiting the change.

-- 
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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