From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Apr 10 7:21:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA9DB37B422 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 07:21:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f3AELBC30299; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 16:21:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Mikhail Teterin Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/26466: devfs panics In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Apr 2001 07:00:05 PDT." <200104101400.f3AE05V93426@freefall.freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 16:21:11 +0200 Message-ID: <30297.986912471@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <200104101400.f3AE05V93426@freefall.freebsd.org>, Mikhail Teterin wr ites: >The following reply was made to PR kern/26466; it has been noted by GNATS. > >From: Mikhail Teterin >To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk >Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@FreeBSD.ORG, > jkh@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: kern/26466: devfs panics >Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 09:57:54 -0400 (EDT) > > On 10 Apr, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > In message <200104092206.f39M6FC17272@misha.privatelabs.com>, mi@aldan.algebra. > > com writes: > > > >>You mean this: > >> devfs on dummy_mount (devfs, local) > > > > If you are using DEVFS in -stable, you are in for some (more) > > serious trouble. > > > > It basically doesn't work. > > Well, this comment should go (back) into LINT then. I remember there > being troubles with devfs and avoided it until now... I was hoping it > would help me solve the problem I described. May be, the PR will bring > it one step closer to working... No, DEVFS in -stable is a dead-end. The DEVFS i -current is a rewrite and it will not be MFC'ed. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message