Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 17:35:36 -0500 From: Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: device numbers (was Re: Removal of Disklabel) Message-ID: <3A2ACAB8.EB6632CD@glue.umd.edu> References: <200011210459.PAA28469@lightning.itga.com.au> <20001121000936.C27827@dragon.nuxi.com> <200012021921.eB2JLmd64092@earth.backplane.com> <3A29848D.9AA7449B@glue.umd.edu> <200012032005.eB3K57m68219@earth.backplane.com>
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Matt Dillon wrote: > > :Matt Dillon wrote: > :> Eventually we won't need device nubers at all, but for now we are somewhat > stuck. > : > :Can you elaborate on that for the curious? > > If I remember correctly, the work Poul is doing with the new dev_t > infrastructure and the work Julian (and others?) are doing with devfs > will eventually lead to us being able to have a dynamic /dev, where > device numbers are assigned on the fly. Nice. Any idea when this will happen? I've seen talk of devfs before but haven't heard anything concrete. It's mentioned in the release notes for 2.1, so I kinda thought it would be here by now. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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