Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 21:34:37 -0000
From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc: current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: DISCUSSION: /dev/fd%d.%d and /dev/{a}cd%d[ac] to be discontinued ?
Message-ID: <16215.45030.31344.503298@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1031.1062663304@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp writes: > > As soon as these uses of cloning code has been removed, I will move > the floppy and CD drivers under GEOM, paving the way for the > significant changes to the buf/VM system which some of you have > already heard rumours about. (more will emerge after BSDcon'03) > > And now comes the bit which I would like to offer for discussion: > > Should we do this for 5.2 instead ? > I think this sounds good. Can you give a hint as to what you mean by the significant buf/VM system changes? Are you talking about removing the vnode detour for drivers and giving drivers who want it access to the struct file? Drewhome | help
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