Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 10:24:54 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PATCH: devfs mkIII test & review please. Message-ID: <1226.967364694@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 27 Aug 2000 07:12:25 %2B0700." <Pine.BSF.4.10.10008270708410.608-100000@lion.butya.kz>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.10.10008270708410.608-100000@lion.butya.kz>, Boris Popov writes: >On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> Missing: >> Rename >> Subdirs. >> Close some race conditions using guaranteed atomic operations. >> Mountoption (ro ?) to prevent new devices from appearing in an instance. >> All uses of cdevsw_add() needs to be use devfs_clone() instead. > > How should 3rd party KLDs implement cloning function ? For now it >seems to be impossible to use a single binary for DEVFS and non-DEVFS >case. Once the code has been shaken out, the cloning stuff will be standard. Right now I prefer to keep as much as possible under #ifdef DEVFS. See kern/vfs_conf.c for another good reason (besides KLD) to make the cloning stuff standard. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | 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-current" in the body of the message
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