From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 4 5:13:11 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 549DA14F18; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 05:13:05 -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 OAA05597; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 14:12:56 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Darren Reed Cc: committers@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Heads up! In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 04 Oct 1999 22:10:10 +1000." <199910041210.WAA11209@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au> Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 14:12:56 +0200 Message-ID: <5595.939039176@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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