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To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
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Subject: Re: options GEOM and NODEVFS
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Peter Wemm wrote:
> 
> Maksim Yevmenkin wrote:
> 
> > p.p.s. i need NODEVFS to run vmware2 (/dev/rtc is not
> >        DEVFS friendly).
> 
> This should take only a few minutes to fix by somebody who knows what they
> are doing.  I'd do it, but I do not have vmware and have no desire to start.
> 
> rtc.c already has the make_dev() calls, but they are in the wrong place.
> They need to be moved from rtc_attach() (called by rtc_open()) to
> init_module() and replace the cdevsw_add that is there.  cdevsw_add and
> cdevsw_remove should be completely removed.  This set of changes will work
> on 4.x too, so there are no big portability issues.
> 
> Some of the folks on freebsd-emulation may be able to do it.

yes, just like i said, i can (and probably will) do it. also there
are few patches floating around. the problem is that none of these
patches made it the tree :(

thanks,
max

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