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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
matt ef047f21f8 Add multiple inclusion protection. Define prototypes for openfirm
routines used in cdevsw.
2001-06-08 00:19:17 +00:00
matt a790bc7690 Add OFIOCGETOPTNODE (now that I know how to implement it). 2000-11-14 21:07:26 +00:00
matt 7d085e8e51 Add openfirmio which is an ioctl interface to OpenFirmware. 2000-11-14 06:45:54 +00:00