From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Dec 3 14:38:15 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 3 14:38:13 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ssl.umd.edu (ssl.umd.edu [128.8.38.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 89E4137B400; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 14:38:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from glue.umd.edu ([128.8.215.117]) by ssl.umd.edu (AppleShare IP Mail Server 6.2.1) id 318355 via TCP with SMTP; Sun, 03 Dec 2000 17:35:27 -0500 Message-ID: <3A2ACAB8.EB6632CD@glue.umd.edu> Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 17:35:36 -0500 From: Brandon Fosdick X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Dillon Cc: David O'Brien , Gregory Bond , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: device numbers (was Re: Removal of Disklabel) References: <200011210459.PAA28469@lightning.itga.com.au> <20001121000936.C27827@dragon.nuxi.com> <200012021921.eB2JLmd64092@earth.backplane.com> <3A29848D.9AA7449B@glue.umd.edu> <200012032005.eB3K57m68219@earth.backplane.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matt Dillon wrote: > > :Matt Dillon wrote: > :> Eventually we won't need device nubers at all, but for now we are somewhat > stuck. > : > :Can you elaborate on that for the curious? > > If I remember correctly, the work Poul is doing with the new dev_t > infrastructure and the work Julian (and others?) are doing with devfs > will eventually lead to us being able to have a dynamic /dev, where > device numbers are assigned on the fly. Nice. Any idea when this will happen? I've seen talk of devfs before but haven't heard anything concrete. It's mentioned in the release notes for 2.1, so I kinda thought it would be here by now. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message