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Date:      Fri, 7 Feb 2003 21:32:21 +0100
From:      Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com>
To:        "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to create a device in current
Message-ID:  <200302072132.21675.thierry@herbelot.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030207202434.CFE885D04@ptavv.es.net>
References:  <20030207202434.CFE885D04@ptavv.es.net>

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Le Friday 07 February 2003 21:24, Kevin Oberman a écrit :
> I maintain a port for FreeBSD that I am trying to fix to run on
> V5. The port is the mWave modem software for some IBM laptop internal
> modems and it needs to create a /dev entry which I previously did with
> a simple mknod. This doesn't work under 5.0, so I am trying to figure
> out how to get the device node created in the rc script for the port.
>
> The command I used in V4 is mknod "/dev/mwave c 96 0". Where so I read
> up on creating something like this with devfs?
>

could this paper be relevant : 
<http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bsdcon02/full_papers/kamp/kamp_html/index.html>;

(it may require some rewriting of the device driver code)

	TfH

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