From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 4 4:55:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 647031541C; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 04:55:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id NAA05482; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 13:55:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: committers@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Heads up! In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 04 Oct 1999 04:42:42 PDT." <199910041142.EAA17355@freefall.freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 13:55:43 +0200 Message-ID: <5480.939038143@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG We have now come so far that we can start to kill cdevsw_add() calls and rely on make_dev() for most of the device drivers. Later today I will add a "nagging printf", which will trigger when a device is opened, which wasn't registered by the device driver with make_dev(). It will only trigger once per driver per boot. If you see messages along the line of: WARNING: driver foo should register devices with make_dev() Please let me and the drivers maintainer know. Disk drivers will still be treated slightly special treatment, so they will be exempt from this warning for now. Background Information: This is all part of the long push for DEVFS, before DEVFS can become a reality, we need all dev_t's to be created specifically with make_dev() so their name is available to DEVFS. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message