Subject: Re: Reassigning recently added majors
To: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org>
From: Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/05/2003 22:37:09
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 10:05:59AM +0200, Jaromir Dolecek wrote:
  | Hi,
  | 
  | I'd like to change assignment of some majors recently assigned
  | in -current, namely 'pf' and 'crypto'. They'd use the
  | machine-independant range and be the same on all archs, freeing
  | the previously assigned numbers for eventual new architecture-specific
  | drivers.
  | 
  | Opinions?

If they don't cause a problem, no objection from me.

However, I'd like to suggest that we tweak your rework of the major
number range to:

	0-191		MD
	192-255		reserved for local use
	256-...		MI

IIRC there's an outstanding PR asking for us to reserve a
"local" (or "vendor" ?) range in the major number space, and this
seems like the perfect time to do that.


Luke.