Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 12:49:22 -0700 From: Kevin D.Wooten <kwooten@home.com> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs? Message-ID: <01110512492207.08198@newton.cevio.com> In-Reply-To: <77717.1004986298@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <77717.1004986298@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Monday 05 November 2001 11:51, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <01110511404004.08198@newton.cevio.com>, "Kevin D.Wooten" writes: > >When did ( will? ) devfs become the default for the kernel? > > about 5 months ago. > > >Also, is it > >defaulted to maintaining the "old" list of files or only the "new" shorter > >list? > > I don't understand the question... Well the linux devfs has a compatibility mode that maintains a /dev that looks exactly like pre-devfs ( the actual list of files is static ), and only links up ( mknod ) the newly added devices to the pre-existing files. There is also the non-compatible mode which only has files for the devices you actually have, and creates the files on demand. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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