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Date:      Wed, 17 Jul 2002 09:35:04 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
To:        Dima Dorfman <dd@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin Makefile src/sbin/devfs Makefile devfs.8 devfs.c extern.h rule.c src/sys/conf files src/sys/fs/devfs devfs.h devfs_devs.c devfs_rule.c devfs_vfsops.c devfs_vnops.c
Message-ID:  <20020717073504.GE43192@starjuice.net>
In-Reply-To: <200207170146.g6H1kpWl024662@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <200207170146.g6H1kpWl024662@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On (2002/07/16 18:46), Dima Dorfman wrote:

>   Modified files:
>     sbin                 Makefile 
>     sys/conf             files 
>     sys/fs/devfs         devfs.h devfs_devs.c devfs_vfsops.c 
>                          devfs_vnops.c 
>   Added files:
>     sbin/devfs           Makefile devfs.8 devfs.c extern.h rule.c 
>     sys/fs/devfs         devfs_rule.c 
>   Log:
>   Introduce the DEVFS "rule" subsystem.  DEVFS rules permit the
>   administrator to define certain properties of new devfs nodes before
>   they become visible to the userland.

Go Dima!

When this matures, it'll put to rest many of the concerns a number of us
have had about DEVFS being the default in 5.0-RELEASE.

Thanks,
Sheldon.

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