From owner-freebsd-current Sat Sep 26 09:51:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA22553 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 09:51:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [148.81.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA22541 for ; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 09:51:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA26771; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 18:55:43 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 18:55:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: Jerry Alexandratos cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: DEVFS IS BROKEN - DON'T USE IT (Re: Build problem with CODA and DEVFS) In-Reply-To: <199809251913.aa16549@mail.eecis.udel.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Jerry Alexandratos wrote: > I go the following error when trying to make a kernel (just cvsup'd the You're not the only one surprised by this... DEVFS in its current shape doesn't work too well, and probably Coda wasn't yet converted to be DEVFS-friendly. I think it should be clearly stated in LINT that DEVFS is BROKEN and should not be used for now. If no-one objects, I'll mark it as such in LINT. Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message