Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 09:45:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_swap.c Message-ID: <199910101645.JAA16830@apollo.backplane.com> References: <15500.939573052@critter.freebsd.dk>
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:> It's similar, but neither ccd nor vinum can guarentee non-blocking
:> operation in low-memory situations. And, anyhow, the swapper is my
:> baby. We can probably remove the external user accessible /dev/drum
:> but we aren't going to be messing with it any more then that.
:
:Cool, so you will kill /dev/drum then ?
:
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:Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member
:phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
If you implement a means to create unassociated (i.e. no major/minor
number at all) devices, the swap device can be converted to one
internally. We aren't going to get rid of the cdevsw structure, though.
Creating totally custom I/O interfaces is never a good idea.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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