From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 18 16:51:27 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA02279 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 18 Oct 1995 16:51:27 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA02260 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 1995 16:51:15 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA24562; Thu, 19 Oct 1995 00:51:07 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA17261; Thu, 19 Oct 1995 00:51:07 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id XAA11564; Wed, 18 Oct 1995 23:42:31 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199510182242.XAA11564@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: device number for watchdog board driver To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 23:42:30 +0100 (MET) Cc: brian@MediaCity.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199510182052.NAA00890@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Oct 18, 95 01:52:14 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 562 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)