Thanks Theo, my pseudo device works! On 9/13/07, Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In which OpenBSD file do I define the major number for devices (both > > regular and pseudo-device)? I have searched in several sources, and > > the closest answer was for NetBSD, which says that major numbers are > > in /usr/src/sys/conf/majors. But I have not found this file in OpenBSD > > sources. > > Noone builds new block devices anymore (in OpenBSD, we instead write > drivers which hide behind the scsi subsystem, since this is more > flexible). > > As for strictly character devices, these are inserted per-architecture > into the cdevsw[] arrays in arch/ARCH/ARCH/conf.c. At the same time, > /usr/src/etc/etc.ARCH/MAKEDEV* have to be modified to create the > device nodes. > > There is no need to keep the major numbers in sync between different > architectures. Actually because of many historical reasons, it is > impossible. >
-- Joco Salvatti Undergraduating in Computer Science Federal University of Para - UFPA web: http://www.openbsd-pa.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
