From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 8 00:37:05 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4205C16A4DA for ; Sun, 8 Feb 2004 00:37:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc12.comcast.net [216.148.227.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3932B43D2F for ; Sun, 8 Feb 2004 00:37:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from interjet.elischer.org ([24.7.73.28]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with ESMTP id <2004020808370401400hkngce>; Sun, 8 Feb 2004 08:37:04 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA50748; Sun, 8 Feb 2004 00:37:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 00:37:02 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Poul-Henning Kamp In-Reply-To: <16065.1076227919@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Review/Test: Pseudo-device unit number management patch X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 08:37:05 -0000 On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message , Ju > lian Elischer writes: > > >> I would appreciate if people would test these devices work _as > >> previously_ with this patch in place. > > > >well that depends on your definition of "as previously" > > > >Previously, nmdm started off with 4 devices visible in /dev now I don't > >see that.. The old behaviour was intuitive... You saw a device. > > This new behaviour is called a "cloning device" and it doesn't allocate > any resources until they are actually needed, which I belive is the > correct behaviour for pseudo-devices. As I said.. I doesn't behave _as Previously_ which is what you asked.. > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. >