Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 20:31:17 +1000 From: Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@theinternet.com.au> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@theinternet.com.au>, Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current && vinum problems?) Message-ID: <20010815203117.L854@zeus.theinternet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <78621.997870804@critter>; from Poul-Henning Kamp on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:20:04PM %2B0200 References: <20010815201521.K854@zeus.theinternet.com.au> <78621.997870804@critter>
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+-------[ Poul-Henning Kamp ]----------------------
| In message <20010815201521.K854@zeus.theinternet.com.au>, Andrew Kenneth Milton
| writes:
| >+-------[ Poul-Henning Kamp ]----------------------
| >| In message <20010815195344.J854@zeus.theinternet.com.au>, Andrew Kenneth Milton
| >| writes:
| >|
| >| >The problem turns up most violently within the XFree86 DRI Module, since
| >| >it now uses make_dev, and not mknod as it used to.
| >| >
| >| >The DRI Module first attempts to mkdir /dev/dri/, and then for each card
| >| >it supports attempts to use make_dev(9) on dri/card%d (0-whatever), I've
| >| >only got one card, so for me dri/card0.
| >|
| >| It should simply make_dev() "dri/card%d", the directory is created
| >| by devfs on demand. You should not mkdir("/dev/dri");
| >
| >Sure, how do you tell at run time whether a system is running DEVFS or not,
|
| if the sysctl variable vfs.devfs.generation exists you're running DEVFS.
|
| In the kernel you check the value of the variable "devfs_present".
|
| >There are going to be other things that assume that /dev/ is just another
| >directory and are going to try to mkdir /dev/foo.
|
| Just how did you do the mkdir ? From userland ? From the kernel ?
In this case it's done from inside a kernel module, which is loaded by
the user, i.e. not automatically loaded by XFree.
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