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Date:      Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:53:08 +0200
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r197518 - in head: share/man/man4 sys/amd64/conf sys/boot/forth sys/conf sys/dev/lindev sys/i386/conf sys/modules sys/modules/lindev sys/pc98/conf
Message-ID:  <86pr9dh1hn.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <200909261245.n8QCjSiM059385@svn.freebsd.org> (Bjoern A. Zeeb's message of "Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:45:28 %2B0000 (UTC)")
References:  <200909261245.n8QCjSiM059385@svn.freebsd.org>

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"Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> Log:
>   lindev(4) [1] is supposed to be a collection of linux-specific pseudo
>   devices that we also support, just not by default (thus only LINT or
>   module builds by default).
>=20=20=20
>   While currently there is only "/dev/full" [2], we are planning to see m=
ore
>   in the future.  We may decide to change the module/dependency logic in =
the
>   future should the list grow too long.
>=20=20=20
>   This is not part of linux.ko as also non-linux binaries like kFreeBSD
>   userland or ports can make use of this as well.
>=20=20=20
>   Suggested by:	rwatson [1] (name)
>   Submitted by:	ed [2]
>   Discussed with:	markm, ed, rwatson, kib (weeks ago)
>   Reviewed by:	rwatson, brueffer (prev. version)
>   PR:		kern/68961
>   MFC after:	6 weeks

Also discussed with: des, who was in favor - both of the concept and of
the implementation.

DES
--=20
Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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