From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 12 9:48:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B11E515AAF for ; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 09:47:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from semuta.feral.com (semuta [192.67.166.70]) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA18728; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 09:47:34 -0700 Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 09:47:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Andy Farkas , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: scsi tape driver wants an update In-Reply-To: <380339AA.FB0D5719@newsguy.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > 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?). No- it's easy to use but it requires thinking about all the minors you want to use and what max sizes, etc. I mean, yes, I could move it along and just delta the changes, but if it can wait a few weeks so I can actually finish off the media detection at open and the persistent density properties (which *would* have an impact about minors), I'd like to do it. The current D_NAG doesn't stop you from using the tape device, does it? > > 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