Re: No more new majors, and help loose the old ones...

2003-02-28 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mark Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : > Please help remove entries in sys/conf/majors for which there exists : > no software, and convert drivers to use "MAJOR_AUTO" instead of using : > static major numbers. : : What is a good driver to crib this fr

Re: No more new majors, and help loose the old ones...

2003-02-27 Thread phk
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Daniel C. Sobral" writes: >> What is a good driver to crib this from? I'll do /dev/(null|zero|random). > >Heh. null and zero are two drivers phk is considering keeping fixed >majors for. :-) I'd suggest that we put the following drivers on the "not quite" list fo

Re: No more new majors, and help loose the old ones...

2003-02-27 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Mark Murray wrote: Poul-Henning Kamp writes: We now have a facility for autoallocating major numbers for device drivers at run time. We will accept no more allocations in sys/conf/majors, unless very good and unavoidable circumstances forces a particular device driver to require a static major num

Re: No more new majors, and help loose the old ones...

2003-02-27 Thread Mark Murray
Poul-Henning Kamp writes: > > We now have a facility for autoallocating major numbers for device > drivers at run time. > > We will accept no more allocations in sys/conf/majors, unless very > good and unavoidable circumstances forces a particular device driver > to require a static major number.

No more new majors, and help loose the old ones...

2003-02-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
We now have a facility for autoallocating major numbers for device drivers at run time. We will accept no more allocations in sys/conf/majors, unless very good and unavoidable circumstances forces a particular device driver to require a static major number. Please help remove entries in sys/conf