From owner-freebsd-current Sat May 30 16:53:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA27328 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 30 May 1998 16:53:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA27306 for ; Sat, 30 May 1998 16:53:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA16855; Sat, 30 May 1998 23:53:40 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id BAA06729; Sun, 31 May 1998 01:53:19 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980531015319.33329@follo.net> Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 01:53:19 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: Julian Elischer , Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I see one major problem with DEVFS... References: <1416.896556860@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Julian Elischer on Sat, May 30, 1998 at 03:53:10PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, May 30, 1998 at 03:53:10PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > > Julian, > > > > Just to get peace over the land again, I think you should implement > > it so that one can mknod a device again, but discard the dev_t, > > and use whatever DEVFS knows (better). > > I agree with this > it's not a bad idea > > If the device being made does not exist then the master directory > corresponding with that the mknod is in is scanned for that name. If you want to be really nice, I'd say implement a reverse mapping from the major/minor numbers for the time being. We will (of course) get rid of this later, but it would allow an almost completely smooth transition to DEVFS. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message