Re: Reserve device major numbers for pkgsrc

[Jaromír Doleček <jaromir.dolecek%gmail.com@localhost>]

Perhaps do not pre-reserve anything and simply reserve consecutive
numbers as the need arises?

Le sam. 16 févr. 2019 à 23:55, Kamil Rytarowski <n54%gmx.com@localhost> a écrit :
>
> 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.
>