From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 25 8:11:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from arg1.demon.co.uk (arg1.demon.co.uk [194.222.34.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1F9437B422 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 08:11:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from arg@arg1.demon.co.uk) Received: by arg1.demon.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 300) id E62399B08; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 16:11:42 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arg1.demon.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1AD65D1A; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 16:11:42 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 16:11:42 +0100 (BST) From: Andrew Gordon X-Sender: arg@server.arg.sj.co.uk To: Kris Kennaway Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS In-Reply-To: <20010424175822.A95577@xor.obsecurity.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 07:54:34PM -0500, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > > > Don't, it's broken. It has no relation to the code in -current which > > > works quite well. > > > > > I learned that the hard way, shouldn't it be disabled so that it can't be enabled if its broken unless they are planning on doing work to fix it? > > DEVFS probably should be disabled/removed from RELENG_4.. Is RELENG_4 DEVFS completely broken, or merely broken in respect of disc devices? I'd been considering using it for discless (netboot) machines, though I admit I haven't tested it yet. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message