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Date:      Thu, 11 Nov 1999 23:03:38 -0600
From:      Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
To:        "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
Cc:        Seigo Tanmura <tanimura@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>, sjr@home.net, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: make_dev() warnings
Message-ID:  <19991111230337.M48527@holly.calldei.com>
In-Reply-To: <199911120500.WAA32225@panzer.kdm.org>
References:  <19991111225905.L48527@holly.calldei.com> <199911120500.WAA32225@panzer.kdm.org>

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On Thu, Nov 11, 1999, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
> Chris Costello wrote...
> > On Thu, Nov 11, 1999, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
> > > So while cdevsw_add() need only be called once for each device type,
> > > make_dev() (once we get DEVFS, I imagine) will probably have to be called
> > > once for each device node added.
> > 
> >    If it's a problem, then make_dev should be changed to
> > facilitate the type of behavior that would be most efficient for
> > disk devices.
> 
> What do you mean?

   You said that cdevsw_add() is called only once for each device
type, while make_dev will be called for each node.  Is that a
problem?  (I assumed it was.)

-- 
|Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
|I used to have a life, then I got v32bis!
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