From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Nov 9 1:24:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98AB537B401 for ; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 01:24:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9E5543E3B for ; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 01:24:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA99O4Or063215; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 10:24:12 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: "Andrew Lankford" Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: getting rid of devfs In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Nov 2002 21:12:54 EST." <20021109021226.ORJQ1488.out012.verizon.net@verizon.net> Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2002 10:24:04 +0100 Message-ID: <63214.1036833844@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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