Re: workaround for FreeBSD binary that hardcodes a device major

[MAEKAWA Masahide <maekawa%daemon-systems.org@localhost>]

manu%netbsd.org@localhost (Emmanuel Dreyfus) wrote:
>1) Tag the major 187 as reserved in the MI range and only define it on
>i386
>2) Use a MD major for twa, and patch freebsd_sys_mknod() so that 187
>gets translated into the right major
>3) Use a MD major for twa, and patch the tw_cli binary so that the right
>major gets used. 
>
>What's the best way?

Write the following def in sys/conf/majors

 device-major twa char 187 twa

You missed the last argument "twa".

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