Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 15:32:16 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Review/Test: Pseudo-device unit number management patch Message-ID: <11981.1076337136@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 09 Feb 2004 15:00:31 %2B0100." <20040209140031.GT14639@garage.freebsd.pl>
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In message <20040209140031.GT14639@garage.freebsd.pl>, Pawel Jakub Dawidek writ es: >Maybe more human-friendly way will be to create /dev/foo0 without >request and if someone will open /dev/foo0, device /dev/foo1 will be >created... Just an idea. I don't think we should spend resources in a pseudo driver until they are needed. Please also remember: /dev is _not_ an inventory of available devices. -- 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.
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