Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 14:12:16 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha mem.c Message-ID: <20000513211216.4EBD11CD7@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Message from Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> of "Sat, 13 May 2000 22:45:40 %2B0200." <551.958250740@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <20000513204102.7508C1CDF@overcee.netplex.com.au>, Peter Wemm writ
es
> :
> >"David O'Brien" wrote:
> >> On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 12:43:00AM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
> >> > Log:
> >> > There are still too many diffs relative to the i386 version.
> >>
> >> Couldn't the two be merged? (perhaps with just a very few #ifdef's)
> >
> >More of it maybe, but take (for instance) the physical addresses. They
> >are 32bit vs. 64 bit. /dev/mem and /dev/kmem are different too.
> >
> >IMHO, /dev/null, /dev/zero, /dev/[u]random etc have no business being in
> >the same driver as /dev/[k]mem. I think *that* is the basic mistake here.
> >Everything but mem/kmem should be in a MI "misc devices" driver.
>
> The fact that they are is a relic of them sharing one major number.
>
> We don't need to use the same devsw{} for all minors of the same major
> today, so abstracting null, zero and the randoms out to some MI place
> would be simple.
Oh yes, that's right! Excellent point! :-) Lets kill this abmonination
now and be done with it.
Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au
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