From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 2 10:19:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4426616A4CE; Sun, 2 May 2004 10:19:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CB1443D53; Sun, 2 May 2004 10:19:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i42HJLZJ023554; Sun, 2 May 2004 11:19:21 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 11:19:55 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20040502.111955.111273448.imp@bsdimp.com> To: phk@phk.freebsd.dk From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <30608.1083480938@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <20040501223031.GA10624@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> <30608.1083480938@critter.freebsd.dk> X-Mailer: Mew version 3.3 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: current@freebsd.org cc: audit@freebsd.org cc: pb@freebsd.org cc: thomas@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting root through devfs X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 17:19:23 -0000 In message: <30608.1083480938@critter.freebsd.dk> "Poul-Henning Kamp" writes: : In message <20040501223031.GA10624@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org>, Thomas Quinot writes: : : >Review, testing and comments would be very much appreciated. : > : >If I understand the comment just above the definition of g_dev_clone, : >integration of this patch would allow removal of a questionable hack. : : yes, this looks a fair bit but less but not quite not questionable : than the current root-mounting hack :-) "It sucks less than ever before" might not be inappropriate :-) Warner