At 04:56 PM 03/28/2001, Mike Smith wrote:
> > > > > >It seems that only 256 bpf devices are supported. How painful would
> > > > > >it be to increase that number...I assume its an 8bit varable
> > > > > >somewhere?
> > > > > >Are there other caveats?
> > > > >
> > > > >It's pretty trivial. Send a patch when you are done.
> > > >
> > > > I was hoping to get some useful insight before I looked into it..or if
> > > > there was a sound reason for not expanding them. Im hopeful someone
> > > > brighter will answer.
> > >
> > >You did. "pretty trival". I.E. will not take much work, and no good
> > >reason not to expand them. Since you've said so many times you can hack
> > >your own system, sounds like PHK told you what you needed to know.
> >
> > What a helpful bunch. thanks.
>
>Just ignore them. I know it's hard, but once you get used to it, it'll
>hurt less. Trust me on this one. 8)
it doesnt "hurt" at all. Dealing with bitter losers is part of the public
experience :-)
Thanks for the tip. i'll forward it to the customer who needs it and let
him do the work. I've got some more flames to deflect :-)
Dennis
>Anyway, I just had a quick look, and I think that your basic problem is
>that MAKEDEV uses the wrong encoding for devices above 255. This is
>fixed in -CURRENT, and if you bring back the unit2minor changes from
>there to -STABLE you should be in business.
>
>If this works, please file a PR so that it gets fixed.
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