From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 11 13:29:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA02929 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 13:29:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA02922; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 13:29:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.9.1) id WAA29761; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 22:29:06 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199809112029.WAA29761@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: DEVFS questions. In-Reply-To: <22158.905542068@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Sep 11, 98 12:27:48 pm" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 22:29:06 +0200 (CEST) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, bright@hotjobs.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG From: Søren Schmidt Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In reply to Jordan K. Hubbard who wrote: > > Well, I usr DEVFS on all my machines, make it alot easier when fiddeling > > with device drivers, ie the devices come and go by themselves, no need > > to fiddle with MAKEDEV, and for that pupose it works very well. > > The SLICE code OTOH has been in the way too many times to be usefull > > for me at least. > > That's to say that you use DEVFS without SLICE defined? > > Hmmm. You must not try to make releases on that box - you don't > get any entries for /dev/vnX that way and it makes this somewhat > difficult. :-) Yes, the vn driver needs to be taught about devfs... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end? .. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message