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On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 07:22:38PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
>     Date:        Thu, 28 Jun 2001 12:50:09 +0200
>     From:        Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
>     Message-ID:  <20010628125009.A28656@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
>=20
>=20
>   | Well, but as long as the userland problem isn't solved, you can't use=
 your
>   | changed kernel at all...
>=20
> I think that you and mjacob were both missing ...
>=20
>   4.2.	Userland - config(8)
>=20
>   4.2.1.	Grammer
>=20
>   device-switch <name> chr <num> [blk <num>] [<options>]
>=20
>   name		- The prefix of bdevsw/cdevsw entry (required)
>   chr		- A character major number (required)
>   blk		- A block major number (optional)
>   options	- Conditions to determine whether should be attached or not
> 		  (optional)
>=20
> That is, the major device numbers are still being wired into the
> kernel, they're not being dynamically allocated - just now that info
> is coming from the config machinery, rather that someone hand editing
> the conf.c file and corectly positioning the list of functions in the
> [cb]devsw tables.
>=20
> Really, if Matt Thomas looks at this and says "real cool" or something,
> it really can't be a totally broken design, can it?

I didn't want to say "broken", just "we need to specify/implement the other
half first."

But as you write, I hadn't looked close enough. Ok, then.

Regards,
	-is

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