Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 14:04:10 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com> Cc: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>, Alain Brauner <bsdinfo@freegate.gna.org>, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tips and tricks Message-ID: <199806032104.OAA01313@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Jun 1998 02:48:25 %2B0800." <Pine.BSF.3.91.980604024611.224D-100000@broker>
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> > On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > > > And DEVFS is purely 3.0-current thing - I doubt it will ever be ported to > > 2.2.x line... I'm afraid that's bad news for you, Dinesh :-( but it would > > require massive changes in kernel... > > well, there's an "options DEVFS" and "options DEVFS_ROOT" in 2.2.6's > LINT. also a devfs(5) man page which says > > "HISTORY > The devfs filesystem first appeared in FreeBSD 2.0. The devfs manual > page first appeared in FreeBSD 2.2." The DEVFS in the 2.* family was never properly implemented and has rotted on the vine. It would have been ripped out if it weren't for the large volume of gratuitous change it would cause. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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