From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 3 03:50:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA02207 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 3 Dec 1997 03:50:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA02194 for ; Wed, 3 Dec 1997 03:50:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA09597; Wed, 3 Dec 1997 03:41:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from UNKNOWN(), claiming to be "current1.whistle.com" via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd009595; Wed Dec 3 03:41:26 1997 Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 03:39:05 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Darren Reed cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using devfs in 2.2.1 In-Reply-To: <199712030848.AAA21839@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk it was broken in 2.2.1 it had worked before that though. 2.2.5 will be better, but the code in 3.0 (which is basically the same but with fixes) is of course best. devfs, while originally slated for 2.2.x has been moved back to 3.x I have been working on it again and have made 2 releases in the last week. I'll be away tomorrow but send me amil if you have probelms and I'll get back to you when I return. julian On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Darren Reed wrote: > > Hmmm, I've been playing with devfs and LKM's in 2.2.1... > > First, devfs isn't dynamic (yet) ? If I load an LKM after devfs has > been mounted and it loads things into devfs, they don't show up in the > mounted directory. > > If I load the LKM and then mount devfs, voila, they're there. > > I assume there is/will-be a rigth and wrong way to do this, but if I > umount /devfs and then try to modunload, I get a panic in devfs_remove_dev(). > > Am I doing anything bad here ? Will 2.2.5 fix this ? > > Darren >