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Subject: big change to devfs rules path matching
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on 25/03/2013 22:44 Andriy Gapon said the following:
> 
> Would like to ask for opinions on this topic...
> Please read this PR for context:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/122838
> Especially Jaakko's insightful description of the problem.

So I would like to commit the following patch sooner rather than later:
http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/devfs_rule.diff
The only difference from the Jaakko's patch in the PR is FNM_PATHNAME.

Please review and test.
Especially if you rely on any non-trivial devfs rules.

Thank you.
-- 
Andriy Gapon