From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 15 8:42:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ywing.creative.net.au (ywing.creative.net.au [203.56.168.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D030E37B647 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 08:42:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adrian@ywing.creative.net.au) Received: (from adrian@localhost) by ywing.creative.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA28017; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 17:46:54 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from adrian) Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 17:46:54 +0200 From: Adrian Chadd To: Boris Popov Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Coleman Kane , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS Message-ID: <20000715174654.E22865@ywing.creative.net.au> References: <4007.963643480@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from bp@butya.kz on Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 07:17:22PM +0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jul 15, 2000, Boris Popov wrote: > 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. Ok, how about you, phk and julian throw up a list of what devfs should do? I am forming some ideas on how to solve the namespace and device cloning issues, we might make some forward work on this finally? :-) Adrian -- Adrian Chadd Build a man a fire, and he's warm for the rest of the evening. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message