From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 28 00:36:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA13057 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 00:36:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wcc.wcc.net (wcc.wcc.net [208.6.232.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA13050 for ; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 00:36:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from piquan@wcc.wcc.net) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tnt137.wcc.net [208.10.139.137]) by wcc.wcc.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA15776; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 02:31:45 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA04409; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 02:35:24 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 02:35:24 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199804280735.CAA04409@detlev.UUCP> To: michaelh@cet.co.jp CC: ambrisko@whistle.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: (message from Michael Hancock on Tue, 28 Apr 1998 09:23:46 +0900 (JST)) Subject: Re: DEVFS & sound drivers question From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> Should DEVFS make these devices (MAKEDEV did)? >> Should these be made as a sym-link and can DEVFS make a sym-link? > DEVFS doesn't have a way to deal with user configured persistent data yet. > Julian is talking about doing it with /etc/rc.devfs or something like > that. > The way refcounting works is confusing and has lead to tangents in the > skeleton code for these ops, see VNSLEAZE. Would a union filesystem be a good thing here, or would it kinda just defeat the purpose of devfs? Best, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message