Subject: Re: [README] MI device major assignment
To: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/05/2003 10:36:46
At 01:18 AM 10/5/2003, Jaromir Dolecek wrote:
>Hi,
>
>following recent discussion on MI-assigned majors, I made first step
>in the direction.
>
>Majors for MI devices are now assigned centrally for all ports, in
>src/sys/dev/majors. This file is automatically included during
>kernel config. Any new MI drivers (i.e. drivers usable on more
>than one arch) majors should be assigned there instead of
>arch/*/conf/majors.ARCH.
I believe that majors should live in sys/conf, not sys/dev.
majors is a configuration file and sys/conf is the corresponding
place to sys/arch/*/conf.
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