Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 21:48:40 +0200 From: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> To: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Simplifying devfs: minor == unit Message-ID: <20080527194840.GO64397@hoeg.nl> In-Reply-To: <20080527194823.GT21317@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> References: <20080527130615.GJ64397@hoeg.nl> <20080527150244.GN21317@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20080527165753.GK64397@hoeg.nl> <20080527191302.GS21317@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20080527193242.GN64397@hoeg.nl> <20080527194823.GT21317@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
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--OmL7C/BU0IhhC9Of Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> wrote: > In fact, I do not understand why you leave the UMINORMASK stuff. It makes > no sense with the unit =3D=3D minor, IMHO. That's because the uminor() and umajor() routines operate on user device numbers (dev_t's). We need to leave those intact, to make things like the binary compat work. --=20 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> WWW: http://80386.nl/ --OmL7C/BU0IhhC9Of Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkg8ZZgACgkQ52SDGA2eCwWtMACfSpkm9xJV+UMbSbh8ukhdWrNs augAnAiH05NPn6l9bmHZYLLSHqMBu19C =aLOM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --OmL7C/BU0IhhC9Of--
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