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Date:      Mon, 04 Oct 1999 14:12:56 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>
Cc:        committers@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Heads up! 
Message-ID:  <5595.939039176@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 04 Oct 1999 22:10:10 %2B1000." <199910041210.WAA11209@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au> 

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In message <199910041210.WAA11209@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au>, Darren Reed writes
:
>In some email I received from Poul-Henning Kamp, sie wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> We have now come so far that we can start to kill cdevsw_add()
>> calls and rely on make_dev() for most of the device drivers.
>[...]
>
>Is that make_dev() meant to make makedev() or is that a part of the
>transition you're helping along here ?  Wonderfully distinct names...

make_dev() basically does a makedev() and registers the name and cdevsw 
on the dev_t.  In addtion it transports the uid, gid and mode args to
DEVFS if available.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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