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To: "Eugene M. Kim" <ab@astralblue.com>
Subject: Re: Status of DEVFS? 
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 08 Jan 2000 00:13:16 PST."
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Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 22:35:16 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.20.0001080001420.4341-100000@home.astralblue.com> "Eugene M. Kim" writes:
: What is the current status of DEVFS?  Is this still a `good feature to
: have but oh well...'-sort of thing so it is not supported by many
: drivers, or is some serious effort on track to round the sharp edges and
: make it usable?

Last time I tried it had all kinds of sharp edges that definitely made 
it untenable for normal use.  I was using cam, and at the time it
didn't support devfs entries.  Chances are good that you'd best avoid
it for now.

Warner


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