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From: Jaakko Heinonen <jh@FreeBSD.org>
To: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: big change to devfs rules path matching
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On 2013-03-28, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> > Would like to ask for opinions on this topic...
> > Please read this PR for context:
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/122838
> > Especially Jaakko's insightful description of the problem.
> 
> So I would like to commit the following patch sooner rather than later:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/devfs_rule.diff
> The only difference from the Jaakko's patch in the PR is FNM_PATHNAME.
> 
> Please review and test.

Good to see this moving forward!

Maybe the change warrants an UPDATING entry?

-- 
Jaakko