From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 15 5:20:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from relay.butya.kz (butya-gw.butya.kz [212.154.129.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC10F37B585 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 05:20:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bp@butya.kz) Received: from bp (helo=localhost) by relay.butya.kz with local-esmtp (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13DQsk-000DQr-00; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 19:17:22 +0700 Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 19:17:22 +0700 (ALMST) From: Boris Popov To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Coleman Kane , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS In-Reply-To: <4007.963643480@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20000715013940.A51575@cokane.yi.org>, Coleman Kane writes: > > >Who is currently working on the DEVFS? I emailed the last person > >to commit to the HOWTO and got no response. I'd like to look into > >finisheing this, and may start hacking if no one tells me otherwise... > > bp@ has a non-working prototype, (as has julian@). Poul, I've made a mistake sending you an out of sync and not finished code. > None of them fixes the root-mount kludges. True, it requires some changes to VFS synch code. > None of them implement cloning devices. Again, wrong. If you disagree on what I've proposed it doesn't mean that it didn't work. It is _necessary_ to fix make_dev() usage/implementation to make cloning code clean. -- Boris Popov http://www.butya.kz/~bp/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message