On Tuesday 27 July 2004 19:20, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
Hi,
I was just informed that LANANA has assigned an official
major number for DVB, so we don't have to use the "unoffical /
experimental use only" number 250 anymore.
Apparently the number was assigned months ago, just nobody bothered
to tell us:
http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset@1.1371.585.18?nav=index.html
The new offical major number is 212. I've changed the sources
for dvb-kernel (dvbdev.h and MAKEDEV-DVB.sh). People who
don't use devfs will have to recreate their devices.
Argh, this will cause a lot of trouble!!!
Imho it would be better to use 250 for all API-3 drivers,
and switch to 212 for API-4.
a heretical thought comes to my mind: isn't it possible to move to a
sysfs/udev based filesystem and leave all the struggles of major/minor
numbering of chrdevs behind?