Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2002 10:24:04 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: "Andrew Lankford" <arlankfo@141.com> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: getting rid of devfs Message-ID: <63214.1036833844@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Nov 2002 21:12:54 EST." <20021109021226.ORJQ1488.out012.verizon.net@verizon.net>
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In message <20021109021226.ORJQ1488.out012.verizon.net@verizon.net>, "Andrew La nkford" writes: >>In message <20021108164651.6e839063.fearow@attbi.com>, Anti writes: >>> >>how are you supposed to get rid of devfs? >> >>You're not. > >Just out of curiosity, what's the main motivation for doing that? DEVFS and GEOM are quite intrusive infrastructure parts, and maintaining the ability to run with/without is more comparable to having two different networkstacks than to running with/without INET for instance. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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