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Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 10:17:36 +0900 (JST)
From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
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        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: I see one major problem with DEVFS...
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On Sun, 31 May 1998, Eivind Eklund wrote:

> 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.

Ok, but would you care to elaborate on some of the dirty details and
creating a coherent outline that Julian can follow?

Be sure to include things like handling aliases and how to keep the vnode,
name cache, and major/minor reverse mapping in sync.

Regards,


Mike


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