From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jun 4 13:51:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AECE615141 for ; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 13:51:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA05754; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 22:50:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Bruce Evans Cc: julian@whistle.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, nick.hibma@jrc.it, roger@cs.strath.ac.uk Subject: Re: cdevsw_add In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 05 Jun 1999 06:48:49 +1000." <199906042048.GAA25745@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 22:50:50 +0200 Message-ID: <5752.928529450@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <199906042048.GAA25745@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans writes: >You're forgetting that devsw[] is another stopgap. The kernel should >probably use something like devfs, where dev_t's only exist for devices >that actually exist. xxx_init() is far too early to decide which hardware >devices exist. Patience Bruce, I'm getting closer to that all the time... -- 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! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message