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Date:      Sat, 27 Apr 1996 02:32:02 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com, louie@TransSys.COM
Cc:        bde@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Anybody else see these in -current?
Message-ID:  <199604261632.CAA17153@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>I get the same sort of messages from the PS/2 mouse driver
>(/sys/i386/isa/psm.c) because it attempts to create devfs nodes each
>time the device is *opened*, and it fails on the second and subsequent
>attempt since the names have already been created.

Yes, devfs isn't finished yet.  Don't use it unless you want to debug it.

The vn (actually the slice) driver attempts to remove all the devfs nodes
before it re-creates them (it remove and creates everything every time
the device is first-opened), but it apparently fails in some cases.

Bruce



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