Subject: Re: firewire of FreeBSD
To: None <jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca>
From: KIYOHARA Takashi <kiyohara@kk.iij4u.or.jp>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/13/2005 00:12:25
Hi,


From: jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca (John Nemeth)
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 15:23:43 -0700

> } Fix major.
> } move from sys/conf/major to sys/arch/ARCH/conf/majors.ARCH.
> } 
> }   ex. (sys/arch/i386/conf/majors.i386) ---
> } 
> }   device-major    fw              char 95                 ieee1394if
> 
>      Since more platforms than just i386 have firewire, the major
> number should be architecture independent.  Even if the FreeBSD
> firewire code only works on i386, it will have to be made portable to
> be acceptable to NetBSD, so you should use an architecture independent
> major number now to avoid problems down the road.

Sorry.
I thought that sys/conf/majors defined only pseudo-device. ;-<

I will define 171 in sys/conf/majors.

Thanks.
--
kiyohara