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Author SHA1 Message Date
gehenna 77a6b82b27 Merge the gehenna-devsw branch into the trunk.
This merge changes the device switch tables from static array to
dynamically generated by config(8).

- All device switches is defined as a constant structure in device drivers.

- The new grammer ``device-major'' is introduced to ``files''.

	device-major <prefix> char <num> [block <num>] [<rules>]

- All device major numbers must be listed up in port dependent majors.<arch>
  by using this grammer.

- Added the new naming convention.
  The name of the device switch must be <prefix>_[bc]devsw for auto-generation
  of device switch tables.

- The backward compatibility of loading block/character device
  switch by LKM framework is broken. This is necessary to convert
  from block/character device major to device name in runtime and vice versa.

- The restriction to assign device major by LKM is completely removed.
  We don't need to reserve LKM entries for dynamic loading of device switch.

- In compile time, device major numbers list is packed into the kernel and
  the LKM framework will refer it to assign device major number dynamically.
2002-09-06 13:18:43 +00:00
wiz c244b23bfe Fix typo. 2002-01-22 00:04:29 +00:00
wiz a9356936b4 seperate -> separate 2001-07-22 13:33:58 +00:00
thorpej 9db8b6018f Make a note about option headers. 1997-09-02 13:42:49 +00:00
thorpej 693b3e7262 Nuke the idea of <machine/options.h>. It completely defeats the purpose
of fine-grain option dependencies.
1997-09-02 13:17:47 +00:00
cgd 25ba9df324 clean up some wording 1997-04-08 00:18:25 +00:00
cgd effe625a3a note NetBSD/alpha's (intentional) deviations from KNF 1997-04-07 23:57:10 +00:00