Major number request

2001-09-11 Thread Andy Schweig
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

Re: Major number request

2001-09-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], 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

Re: Major number request

2001-09-11 Thread Andy Schweig
Actually, it will be a Netgraph node. The idea is to use the character device interface for configuration. Each of these cards has a 6-byte MAC address programmed into it which can be used as a unique ID for the card. We would like to be able to program the driver with an association between MAC

Re: Major number request

2001-09-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
Fort the musycc and if_mn drivers I ended up giving the nodes names from the physical location on the pci bus, so they are called things like: sync-0-10-0 sync-0-9-0 etc. I wouldn't mind if we could standardize the interface in general btw, it would make it a lot easier for

Re: Major number request

2001-09-11 Thread Julian Elischer
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Andy Schweig wrote: Actually, it will be a Netgraph node. The idea is to use the character device interface for configuration. Each of these cards has a 6-byte MAC address programmed into it which can be used as a unique ID for the card.s We would like to be able

Re: Device major number request for ACPI device.

2000-07-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], takawata@shidahara 1.planet.sci.kobe-u.ac.jp writes: Hi, I want major number for ACPI device. I will use the device interface to enable/disable ACPI and access to switches defined in ACPI. I have allocated major 152 for ACPI. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX

Re: Device major number request for ACPI device.

2000-07-24 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Poul-Henning Kamp writes: : I have allocated major 152 for ACPI. Just a quick note. Projects like this can have any committer allocate the major number. Since watanabe-san is a commiter, I had sent mail to him saying this just before phk's commit. Warner To