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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



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