Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 14:40:37 +0200 (MET DST) From: Nick Hibma <nick.hibma@jrc.it> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: committers@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Heads up! Message-ID: <Pine.GS4.4.10.9910041440070.3456-100000@elect8> In-Reply-To: <5480.939038143@critter.freebsd.dk>
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And the crowd goes wild! Nick > > 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. > > Later today I will add a "nagging printf", which will trigger when > a device is opened, which wasn't registered by the device driver > with make_dev(). It will only trigger once per driver per boot. > > If you see messages along the line of: > > WARNING: driver foo should register devices with make_dev() > > Please let me and the drivers maintainer know. > > Disk drivers will still be treated slightly special treatment, so > they will be exempt from this warning for now. > > Background Information: > > This is all part of the long push for DEVFS, before DEVFS can become > a reality, we need all dev_t's to be created specifically with > make_dev() so their name is available to DEVFS. > > > -- > 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! > > -- ISIS/STA, T.P.270, Joint Research Centre, 21020 Ispra, Italy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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