Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 14:12:56 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au> Cc: committers@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Heads up! Message-ID: <5595.939039176@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 04 Oct 1999 22:10:10 %2B1000." <199910041210.WAA11209@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au>
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In message <199910041210.WAA11209@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au>, Darren Reed writes : >In some email I received from Poul-Henning Kamp, sie wrote: >> >> >> 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. >[...] > >Is that make_dev() meant to make makedev() or is that a part of the >transition you're helping along here ? Wonderfully distinct names... make_dev() basically does a makedev() and registers the name and cdevsw on the dev_t. In addtion it transports the uid, gid and mode args to DEVFS if available. -- 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
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