From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 2 10:14:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA13801 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 10:14:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA13794 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 10:14:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA13882 for hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 10:57:17 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199704021757.KAA13882@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Internal clock To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 10:57:17 -0700 (MST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > We *have* a well designed and thought out device interface: devfs. > > > > I have *no* idea what is preventing you from making it the default > > mechanism. > > We still miss Terry's bugfixes for it. You aren't missing them, you're just not integrating them for fear of Lite2 (a fear now put to rest) and fear of their scope. > If you had ever used it (with options DEVFS_ROOT, it's already there), > you knew what the bugs are. Terry, the first 90 % of the work are > done with it, that's right. We are now in the phase that takes the > second 90 % of the development time... I've used it. For what it's worth, prior to the Lite2 merge in 3.0, my system didn't crash when I unmounted things. I've tried to make your system the same as mine, but you won't let me. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.