Re: Reserve device major numbers for pkgsrc

[Christoph Badura <bad%bsd.de@localhost>]

On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 09:02:05PM -0800, John Nemeth wrote:
> On Feb 16, 11:25pm, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> } Where and how to reserve these major numbers?
> 
>      The ideal thing is to not reserve numbers at all and have them
> allocated dynamically.  This requires the module reporting the
> number that was allocated to userland somehow.  However, the only
> thing that is coming to mind off the top of my head is printf(9)
> which would normally land in /var/log/messages.

We have sysctl as an easy an convenient way.

Maybe we should think of a standard way to do that there.  E.g. like a
separate hierarchy for modules and a standard way of naming them.

--chris