From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 5 11:57: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from femail44.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail44.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.254.60.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29FF237B405 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 11:57:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from newton.cevio.com ([24.1.238.119]) by femail44.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with SMTP id <20011105195657.DYFM2398.femail44.sdc1.sfba.home.com@newton.cevio.com> for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 11:56:57 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Kevin D.Wooten To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs? Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 12:49:22 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <77717.1004986298@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <77717.1004986298@critter.freebsd.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01110512492207.08198@newton.cevio.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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