From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 22 00:49:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA09251 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 00:49:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from word.smith.net.au (vh1.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA09244 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 00:48:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA00476; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 19:12:42 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199712220842.TAA00476@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Julian Elischer cc: Mike Smith , John-Mark Gurney , FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: converting drivers to dynamic memory... In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 22 Dec 1997 00:14:16 -0800." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 19:12:42 +1030 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > As to when DEVFS becomes ready, > I'm looking at a release in a week or two. > I'm having trouble finding things that fail. > (you should try the newest file in ftp://hub.freebsd.org/pub/scsi) Wilco. See other message about hardware. 8( > mainly they are related to things that make stupid assumptions.. ... or have typos in the #ifdef DEVFS section. We had a few of those in code here. 8) > BTW Mike, > You said you found some failure conditions but I can't find the email > can you remind me? Start xdm, and try logging in. Then move the mouse. caveat: there were odd poll/select changes going on when I tried this last, it may have been non-DEVFS related. I think there may be problems in the pccard code too; I was seeing an extra insertion event for the second card at startup, and there may be problems with card removal not revoking the device node. mike