From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jan 15 11:22: 3 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD54837B401; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:22:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EDFF43F3F; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:22:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (12-232-168-4.client.attbi.com[12.232.168.4]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53) with ESMTP id <2003011519220105300lg47pe>; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 19:22:02 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA91575; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:22:01 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:22:00 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: DEVFS and GEOM mandatorification timeline. In-Reply-To: <14715.1042634253@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > I think we are now at a cross-road where it makes sense to nail > down the path for making DEVFS and GEOM non-optional components. > > The three steps in this process will be: > > Remove option "NODEVFS" in sys/conf and sys/*/conf. > > Remove option "NO_GEOM" in sys/conf and sys/*/conf. > > Remove MAKEDEV and all references to it from the tree. fix ports (e.g. emulation/rtc) that don't handle devfs correctly. > > There are _no_ sweeps over all drivers to change APIs etc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message