Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 17:46:54 +0200 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Coleman Kane <cokane@one.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS Message-ID: <20000715174654.E22865@ywing.creative.net.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10007151908320.51585-100000@lion.butya.kz>; from bp@butya.kz on Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 07:17:22PM %2B0700 References: <4007.963643480@critter.freebsd.dk> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10007151908320.51585-100000@lion.butya.kz>
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On Sat, Jul 15, 2000, Boris Popov wrote: > On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > In message <20000715013940.A51575@cokane.yi.org>, Coleman Kane writes: > > > > >Who is currently working on the DEVFS? I emailed the last person > > >to commit to the HOWTO and got no response. I'd like to look into > > >finisheing this, and may start hacking if no one tells me otherwise... > > > > bp@ has a non-working prototype, (as has julian@). > > Poul, I've made a mistake sending you an out of sync and not > finished code. > > > None of them fixes the root-mount kludges. > > True, it requires some changes to VFS synch code. > > > None of them implement cloning devices. > > Again, wrong. If you disagree on what I've proposed it doesn't > mean that it didn't work. It is _necessary_ to fix make_dev() > usage/implementation to make cloning code clean. Ok, how about you, phk and julian throw up a list of what devfs should do? I am forming some ideas on how to solve the namespace and device cloning issues, we might make some forward work on this finally? :-) Adrian -- Adrian Chadd Build a man a fire, and he's warm for the <adrian@FreeBSD.org> rest of the evening. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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