I am trying to do some weird things with some custom console code and got stuck on the fact that our console code belives all consoles have a dev_t.
This patch changes the API so that rather than pass a "dev_t" to the console functions, the "struct consdev *" is passed: -typedef void cn_putc_t(dev_t, int); +typedef void cn_putc_t(struct consdev *, int); The dev_t can still be gotten hold of: int -zs_cncheckc(dev_t dev) +zs_cncheckc(struct consdev *cp) { int s = spltty(); - int c = zs_maygetc(zs_console_addr, minor(dev)); + int c = zs_maygetc(zs_console_addr, minor(cp->cn_dev)); splx(s); return c; } But in addition to this I have added a driver-private element to the consdev structure for other needs: + void *cn_arg; /* drivers method argument */ The patch compiles and runs on all platforms I can currently test, but I'd like if some of you can give it a spin too: http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/console.patch The patch just does the not quite mechanical switch, some of the drivers could get some mileage from the cn_arg field but I have not tried that. Thanks in advance, Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message