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"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
> Dag-Erling =3D?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=3DF8rgrav?=3D writes:
> > "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> writes:
> > > That is a good reason to transitioning to this, so long as we can come
> > > up with a good way to represent detached nodes.
> > As long as they have a device_t, it should be a piece of cake.
> Having a device_t is a property of having hardware, not of being a
> device driver.

I believe that by "detached nodes", Warner means hardware that does
not have a driver.

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