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Date:      Tue, 26 Jan 1999 09:14:36 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
Cc:        sobomax@altavista.net (Maxim Sobolev), current@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer)
Subject:   Re: DEVFS, the time has come... 
Message-ID:  <24709.917338476@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:51:14 PST." <199901260451.UAA23212@bubba.whistle.com> 

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In message <199901260451.UAA23212@bubba.whistle.com>, Archie Cobbs writes:
>Maxim Sobolev writes:
>> Can you point all people (and me of course) who want to test DEVFS to some
>> common information about DEVFS (usage, possible advantages/disadvantages etc.
>> I think some FAQ or so will be nice. It's really will help us to go further
>> with this issue.
>
>I agree.. and I've bugged Julian to put something together...
>
>Basically, there are a few things that need to be done to get DEVFS
>into the 'mainstream'... and this includes SLICE.

No, it doesn't have to be SLICE.  In particular, if we're going the
SLICE way, it should be done >right<, and Julians SLICE code didn't 
do that. (I know, I spent close to 6 months prototyping the concept
and julian had my code to work from).


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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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