From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Feb 26 20: 1:47 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D117E37B401 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 20:01:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 327B843FCB for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 20:01:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) id h1R41jwi077960; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 22:01:45 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 22:01:45 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (almost) Ready to ditch device major numbers. Message-ID: <20030227040145.GA25640@dan.emsphone.com> References: <28750.1046295228@critter.freebsd.dk> <20030227033854.GA87187@rot13.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030227033854.GA87187@rot13.obsecurity.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Feb 26), Kris Kennaway said: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 10:33:48PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > We are now (almost) ready to ditch device major numbers if we want > > to. > > There are a number of ports that create device nodes in the package > tarball (e.g. the linux_base ports which create a shadow /dev). How > will this be affected under your plans? linux_base-7.1_2 doesn't put anything in /compat/linx/dev, and I don't see anything in linux_base-6's plist that indicates it does, either. Anything that tries to generate a device node in /dev from userland should already fail anyway, right? devfs won't let you do anything except make symlinks. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message