Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 23:46:58 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: cdevsw_add() removal patch. Message-ID: <36088.1004741218@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Please run this patch on you current machine and report any problems you might notice! Background: All dev_t's in the system should be created with an explicit make_dev() call and the old "wildcard" cdevsw[] mechanism be killed to the extent we can. This patch covers what I think is the trivial drivers, and if no problems are reported I will sweep all these drivers for cdevsw_add() related code and commit it one by one. If you know any of the drivers involved and know for sure that the driver is covered with make_dev() calls (ie: it works correctly on DEVFS systems) please feel (more than) free to remove the cdevsw_add() call yourself. Poul-Henning http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/cdevsw_add.patch Remove the majority of the cdevsw_add() calls in the kernel. All main-stream drivers have been fixed for DEVFS which by definition makes cdevsw_add() calls unneeded for both the DEVFS and !DEVFS cases. I have not removed the cdevsw_add() calls from driver where I think it might make a difference for the !DEVFS case still or where I could not figure out what was going on. This patch is not the commit-ready version, but offered as a HEADSUP for people to test the effect of the actual patch on their systems. The actual patch will remove the entire cdevsw_add() family. -- 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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