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Date:      Sat, 5 Jun 1999 10:39:40 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Nick Hibma <nick.hibma@jrc.it>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD hackers mailing list <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: cdevsw_add
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.95q.990605103111.15420K-100000@elect8>
In-Reply-To: <199906042048.GAA25745@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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While on the topic: Who is working on devfs and why not? 

I'd like to know whether there is some interest in getting that work
underway again. More than interested to help.

 > 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.
 > 
 > Bruce


Nick



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