From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jan 15 11:30:51 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 1818D37B401 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:30:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4355043F3F for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:30:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@freebsd.org) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0FJUN9O018844; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 20:30:24 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@freebsd.org) To: Julian Elischer Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: DEVFS and GEOM mandatorification timeline. From: phk@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:22:00 PST." Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 20:30:23 +0100 Message-ID: <18843.1042659023@critter.freebsd.dk> 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 In message , 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