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In message <20060625.174838.2140534929.imp@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes
:

>If all the dev_t's had a device_t, then we could hang this information
>off of devd.

As nice as this sounds, it just doesn't match reality.  We would have
to create bogus device_t's for pseudo-device drivers, and we would
come up particularly short with things like ggate.

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