Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 22:29:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, bright@hotjobs.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS questions. Message-ID: <199809112029.WAA29761@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <22158.905542068@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Sep 11, 98 12:27:48 pm"
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In reply to Jordan K. Hubbard who wrote:
> > Well, I usr DEVFS on all my machines, make it alot easier when fiddeling
> > with device drivers, ie the devices come and go by themselves, no need
> > to fiddle with MAKEDEV, and for that pupose it works very well.
> > The SLICE code OTOH has been in the way too many times to be usefull
> > for me at least.
>
> That's to say that you use DEVFS without SLICE defined?
>
> Hmmm. You must not try to make releases on that box - you don't
> get any entries for /dev/vnX that way and it makes this somewhat
> difficult. :-)
Yes, the vn driver needs to be taught about devfs...
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end?
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