From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 13 11:15:16 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA07973 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 11:15:16 -0700 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA07968 for ; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 11:15:12 -0700 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA17873; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 11:08:52 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199510131808.LAA17873@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: IPX now available To: julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 11:08:52 -0700 (MST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, terry@lambert.org, jhay@mikom.csir.co.za, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199510130456.VAA06646@ref.tfs.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Oct 12, 95 09:56:04 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 886 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > > The gist of this is that he wants to work on putting simple linker code > > > into the kernel, and I very much agree with him. > > > > Assuming that you and the anti-bloatists can work this out, this and > > everything following it certainly sounds reasonable to me. > > > > dev_add_char (just dev_add?) > > dev_remove_char (just dev_remove?) > devfs already has dev_add() and dev_link() > these are called by the driver to make a new device in devfs > or to make a new 'link' to an existing device in devfs. > dev_remove is there too but not really implimented.. > maybe I should change the names to devfs_add et al. I think it is reasonable to require a common prefix on all functions exported by a conceptually seperate module. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.