cvs commit: src/sys/conf majors

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Thu Aug 28 03:23:08 PDT 2003


In message <20030828101157.GO47959 at garage.freebsd.pl>, Pawel Jakub Dawidek writ
es:
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>On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 12:43:41AM -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
>+> >   Modified files:
>+> >     sys/conf             majors=20
>+> >   Log:
>+> >   Reserve 184 for dumb console driver(dcons) which can be found in
>+> >   ports/devel/dcons.
>+>=20
>+> Ummm.. aren't major numbers deperciated?  (If this is for -stable, it
>+> was on the wrong branch.)
>
>On -CURRENT:
>
>WARNING: driver "foo" used unreserved major device number bar

You should use automatic assignment of majors.

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