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Re: Reserve device major numbers for pkgsrc



New version.

http://netbsd.org/~kamil/patch-00086-pkgsrc-majors.2.txt

I have no preference on preallocation and selection of numbers.

On 17.02.2019 00:12, Jaromír Doleček wrote:
> 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.
>>


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