Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 22 May 2002 23:47:30 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc:        Rob <rob@pythonemproject.com>, Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: thanks for heads-up on devfs
Message-ID:  <20020522233448.F9700-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020522025049.GA386@hades.hell.gr>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

> On 2002-05-21 15:03, Rob wrote:
> > I am still wondering why MAKEDEV showed up in /usr/src/etc if it is not
> > needed?  I had an empty directory before I cvsup'd.  Thanks,  Rob.
>
> You'll probably need it if you manually disable DEVFS in CURRENT.
> However, I don't know if this still works, as I haven't tried it.

I still use !DEVFS, since I don't believe in DEVFS.  I needed to fix
some bitrot in the disk cloning code for finding the root device to
work.  Initialization of the pty driver causes warnings.

Bruce


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20020522233448.F9700-100000>