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To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Oct 2003 08:27:56 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 15:05:49 +0200
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Subject: Re: DISCUSSION: /dev/fd%d.%d and /dev/{a}cd%d[ac] to be
	discontinued ? 
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In message <16275.54476.170348.927902@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>, Andrew Gallatin
 writes:
>
>Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
> > In message <16215.45030.31344.503298@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>, Andrew Gallatin 
> > writes:
>
> > >system changes?  Are you talking about removing the vnode detour for
> > >drivers and giving drivers who want it access to the struct file?
> > 
> > ... and all that stuff yes.
> > 
> > It's been discussed in various emails in the past.
> > 
>
>Which is very hard to find.  Try searching for things like 'phk + dev
>+ vnode' .. ;)   I was hoping you had a writeup or a link to one
>handy.

Not quite.  I'll put it on my list.

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