Greetings Hackers, We are in the process of releasing a FreeBSD v 3.2 Ethernet driver that detects link failures and executes failovers, supports Cisco's FEC trunking, and system-to-system trunking. To support these features, some configuration is required...the configuration utility requires a "/dev/zrm" device with a major character device #.
The driver (unfortunately a binary only release) also needs to know the major device #. We would greatly appreciate some advice on which device # to use and how to let our driver know which one has been assigned. http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ253.html says we can use character device # 32 - ... what if someone else is already using it..don't these have to be unique ? /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/majors.i386 says 200-255 are available for "local use" ... is there a way a configuration utility can determine the next available ? is there a way my driver can tell which # is used for our "/dev/zrm" character device ? ( the driver uses "cdevsw_add( )" to register routines for the device - major dev # is required ) Advice here would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Tim Tim Hayes ZNYX Corporation 187 S Patterson Suite C Santa Barbara CA 93111 tim_ha...@znyx.com v: 805 683 8841 f: 805 683 1171 p: 800 376 2942 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
