Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 11:35:54 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Review/Test: Pseudo-device unit number management patch Message-ID: <16976.1076236554@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 08 Feb 2004 00:37:02 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0402080034540.24800-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0402080034540.24800-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>, Ju lian Elischer writes: > > >On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0402072348240.24800-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>, Ju >> lian Elischer writes: >> >> >> I would appreciate if people would test these devices work _as >> >> previously_ with this patch in place. >> > >> >well that depends on your definition of "as previously" >> > >> >Previously, nmdm started off with 4 devices visible in /dev now I don't >> >see that.. The old behaviour was intuitive... You saw a device. >> >> This new behaviour is called a "cloning device" and it doesn't allocate >> any resources until they are actually needed, which I belive is the >> correct behaviour for pseudo-devices. > >As I said.. I doesn't behave _as Previously_ which is what you asked.. I was thinking more of the functional aspect, that characters get from one side to the other etc. -- 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.
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