Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 19:45:40 +0100 From: phk@freebsd.org To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: DEVFS and GEOM mandatorification timeline. Message-ID: <18387.1042656340@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Jan 2003 13:43:41 EST." <15909.43997.980937.352619@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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In message <15909.43997.980937.352619@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>, Andrew Gallatin writes: >Hmm.. I don't propose actually converting existing drivers to use the >new interface, I agree that would be very tricky and time consuming, >and would require extensive testing. > >What I was proposing is to just push the struct file * down to >open/close/ioctl/* for new drivers, and to do the conversion of >existing drivers lazily. Old drivers get to add another arg they >don't use to their open/close/ioctl/* functions. I'd prefer we do it once only, and do it right from the start. -- 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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