Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 20:30:23 +0100 From: phk@freebsd.org To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: DEVFS and GEOM mandatorification timeline. Message-ID: <18843.1042659023@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:22:00 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0301151121030.91512-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0301151121030.91512-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>, Ju lian Elischer writes: > > >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. These ports are already broken relative to 5.0. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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