From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 12 9: 4:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED85615E31 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 09:04:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p25-dn03kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.232.224.154]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id BAA13241; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 01:03:44 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <380339AA.FB0D5719@newsguy.com> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 22:37:46 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: Andy Farkas , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: scsi tape driver wants an update References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Jacob wrote: > > This is a harmless message for the moment. I took a look at the new > make_dev stuff- it's more than a no-brainer to add because there's a lot > of stuff about supported device nodes, etc... I'll try and get back to > this after FreeBSDcon. Funny, phk's comments led me to believe it's actually easier to use make_dev() (!= makedev(), btw -- maybe you looked up the wrong one?). And, talking about phk, it is also my impression that it is his intent to push these changes as fast as he can. He gets strange at this time of the year, y'know... I think Jordan once posted an interesting explanation for this phenomenum. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "I always feel generous when I'm in the inner circle of a conspiracy to subvert the world order and, with a small group of allies, just defeated an alien invasion. Maybe I should value myself a little more?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message