Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 09:53:25 +0200
From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc: current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: DISCUSSION: /dev/fd%d.%d and /dev/{a}cd%d[ac] to be discontinued ?
Message-ID: <7362.1066636405@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Sep 2003 17:34:30 EDT." <16215.45030.31344.503298@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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In message <16215.45030.31344.503298@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>, Andrew Gallatin writes: > >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? ... and all that stuff yes. It's been discussed in various emails in the past. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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