From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 5 1:39:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mrelay.jrc.it (mrelay.jrc.it [139.191.1.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA24E14FD3; Sat, 5 Jun 1999 01:39:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick.hibma@jrc.it) Received: from elect8 (elect8.jrc.it [139.191.71.152]) by mrelay.jrc.it (LMC5692) with SMTP id KAA19203; Sat, 5 Jun 1999 10:39:41 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 10:39:40 +0200 (MET DST) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@elect8 Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: Bruce Evans Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD hackers mailing list Subject: Re: cdevsw_add In-Reply-To: <199906042048.GAA25745@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG While on the topic: Who is working on devfs and why not? I'd like to know whether there is some interest in getting that work underway again. More than interested to help. > 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. > > Bruce Nick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message