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Date:      Fri, 04 Jun 1999 22:50:50 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        julian@whistle.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, nick.hibma@jrc.it, roger@cs.strath.ac.uk
Subject:   Re: cdevsw_add 
Message-ID:  <5752.928529450@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 05 Jun 1999 06:48:49 %2B1000." <199906042048.GAA25745@godzilla.zeta.org.au> 

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In message <199906042048.GAA25745@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans writes:

>You're forgetting that devsw[] is another stopgap.  The kernel should
>probably use something like devfs, where dev_t's only exist for devices
>that actually exist.  xxx_init() is far too early to decide which hardware
>devices exist.

Patience Bruce, I'm getting closer to that all the time...

--
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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