From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 26 01:26:29 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA03191 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 01:26:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA03186 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 01:26:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA91135; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 09:25:21 GMT Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 09:25:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: Archie Cobbs , Maxim Sobolev , current@FreeBSD.ORG, Julian Elischer Subject: Re: DEVFS, the time has come... In-Reply-To: <24709.917338476@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <199901260451.UAA23212@bubba.whistle.com>, Archie Cobbs writes: > >Maxim Sobolev writes: > >> Can you point all people (and me of course) who want to test DEVFS to some > >> common information about DEVFS (usage, possible advantages/disadvantages etc. > >> I think some FAQ or so will be nice. It's really will help us to go further > >> with this issue. > > > >I agree.. and I've bugged Julian to put something together... > > > >Basically, there are a few things that need to be done to get DEVFS > >into the 'mainstream'... and this includes SLICE. > > No, it doesn't have to be SLICE. In particular, if we're going the > SLICE way, it should be done >right<, and Julians SLICE code didn't > do that. (I know, I spent close to 6 months prototyping the concept > and julian had my code to work from). Wouldn't it be possible to fit this into the device system? If we treat disks as devices and partition types as drivers, most of the boring work of matching drivers to devices and keeping lists and trees of objects will happen automatically. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message