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Date:      Sat, 09 Nov 2002 10:31:45 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        julian@FreeBSD.ORG (Julian Elischer)
Cc:        kris@obsecurity.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: getting rid of devfs... 
Message-ID:  <64608.1036834305@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Nov 2002 20:31:23 PST." <20021109043123.0555F37B401@hub.freebsd.org> 

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In message <20021109043123.0555F37B401@hub.freebsd.org>, Julian Elischer writes
:

>In fact majors and minors, being dynamic, could change from boot to boot.

And just to calm down anybody who's getting nervous now, this is not
happening quite yet :-)

After the next branch of -current, be it before/after 5.0-R or
5.1-R, and provided nothing terminal pops up in the meantime: I
will commit the following changes:

DEVFS:
	1. DEVFS will become standard (ie: no disabling option).
	2. Remove cdevsw_add() and cdevsw_remove() and makedev().
	3. major/minors will be dynamically assigned.

GEOM:
	1. GEOM will become standard (ie: no disabling options).
	2. Legacy code will be removed.

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