From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 15 17:19:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA14992 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 17:19:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (sf3-58.ppp.wenet.net [206.15.84.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA14678 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 17:18:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.9.1/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA00484; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 17:19:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 17:19:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: Julian Elischer cc: Andrzej Bialecki , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help, DEVFS/MFS is broken... In-Reply-To: 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, 15 Sep 1998, Julian Elischer wrote: > > It's all irrelevent now as someone deleted all the SLICE stuff out of the > kernel tree. Apparently phk an sos are now doing all the work to make > devices dynamic. They will probably delete all the devfs code as well > so that they have a clean slate to work on.. > > (I only discoverd it when all my slice files were deleted from my tree on > 'cvs update') > > It seems that an abstracted disk layer is not considered important enough > to work on.. It seemed more to me like unpolished code has no place in 3.0-R was the mentality. And, I'd have to agree there. I'd much rather wait and see a decent devfs and slice code in 3.0.5-R than see broken code which can cause panics in 3.0-R. - alex | "Contrary to popular belief, penguins are not the salvation of modern | | technology. Neither do they throw parties for the urban proletariat." | | Powered by FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/ | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message