Doug Rabson wrote:
> On Sun, 21 May 2000, Mark Murray wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I want to commit a new /dev/random RSN, so I'll be needing a major
> > device; what is the procedure for getting one? I know how to steal one,
> > but ISTR that this is not how it is done.
>
> Just edit sys/conf/majors and claim the next available number.
You don't need one. You can use the same major/minor numbers. You can
register multiple cdevsw's per major number with make_dev(); (do NOT
use cdevsw_add() for this).
> >
> > Also - Peter said something about the "mem" device needing
> > to only contain the /dev/mem and /mem/kmem devices, and
> > /dev/(random|urandom|null|zero) needing to move to MI areas. I have done
> > this, as KLD's. Who wants to review?
>
> I'll take a look.
>
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Cheers,
-Peter
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