Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!sgi!shinobu!odin!anchor!olson From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: question about major device ID Keywords: major,device,ID,reserved Message-ID: <1991Feb18.185226.15626@odin.corp.sgi.com> Date: 18 Feb 91 18:52:26 GMT References: Sender: news@odin.corp.sgi.com (Net News) Distribution: usa Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA Lines: 18 In psomu@pilot.njin.net (Prabhakar Somu) writes: | Hi, | In Irix 3.3.1 (on 4D70GT) the file "/usr/include/sys/major.h" | says that the Major device ID numbers 60 to 79 are reserved for customer | use. We have a driver which uses a Major device ID of 99 (this was | written earlier). I noticed that major.h did not exist on 3.2 . Are the | restrictions on Major Device ID's new to 3.3.1 and, is there a problem with | using a non reserved major ID ? The equivalent comment used to be directly in /usr/sysgen/system. I would strongly suggest you change your major #, as 99 is used (for an optional board) in the next release. -- Dave Olson Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code.