Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 12:46:37 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: phk@dk.tfs.com Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ISODEVMAP in cd9660 ? Message-ID: <199704151946.MAA23082@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <536.861102080@critter> from "phk@dk.tfs.com" at Apr 15, 97 01:01:20 pm
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> >> Anybody know a good reason for not nuking the "ISODEVMAP" stuff in cd9660 ? > > > >Does anybody realize what's the intention behind all this? To allow bootable CDROM's. > No idea really, and since DEVFS will make it pointless and it wasn't > documented I've nuked it. DEVFS *will* make it pointless. However... non-documentation is not a good reason for nuking something; there's a *lot* of kernel code that falls into that basket, inclusing almost all of the VM and generic (non-FS) kernel code. I except some of the FS code because the VFS frameworkis intended to be documented by the Heidemann thesis (even if it's not a good fit because of the way it was integrated). Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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