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Date:      Tue, 11 Sep 2001 21:43:39 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        "Andy Schweig" <aes@stg.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, SBS Project Staff <sbsproj@stg.com>
Subject:   Re: Major number request 
Message-ID:  <24842.1000237419@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Sep 2001 14:21:46 CDT." <3B9E644A.AA666A68@stg.com> 

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In message <3B9E644A.AA666A68@stg.com>, "Andy Schweig" writes:
>Hello,
>
>Software Technologies Group (http://www.stg.com) is currently developing a
>FreeBSD driver for SBS Technologies (http://www.sbs.com) for their WANic 520
>series of WAN interface cards. The design of the driver requires the creation of
>a device node. Would it be possible to get a major number reserved for this
>driver? Thanks for your help...

Hi Andy,

I'm pretty sure that you should not make this a "classical device" but
rather a NetGraph node.

Contact julian@freebsd.org for details on NetGraph if you cannot find
any docs on it.

You may also want to look at the "musycc" and "if_mn" drivers which
support similar cards.

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