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Re: Reserve device major numbers for pkgsrc



On 16.02.2019 23:40, Jaromír Doleček wrote:
> Le sam. 16 févr. 2019 à 23:24, Kamil Rytarowski <n54%gmx.com@localhost> a écrit :
>>
>> We started to build and ship kernel modules through pkgsrc.
>>
>> I would like to reserve 3 major numbers for the HAXM case from the base
>> pool of devices and prevent potential future conflicts and compatibility
>> breakage due to picking up another major number in a 3rd party software.
>>
>> Where and how to reserve these major numbers?
>>
>> I expect that we will start growing software that uses our kernel module
>> framework. (I have got few candidates to get ported in future)
> 
> See sys/conf/majors
> 
> Jaromir
> 

Proposed patch:

http://netbsd.org/~kamil/patch-00086-pkgsrc-majors.txt

I have no opinion on numbers to pick, please suggest the right ranges
and I will follow it.

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