From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 22 11:23:23 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id LAA08436 for current-outgoing; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 11:23:23 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA08429 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 11:23:20 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA01010; Tue, 22 Aug 95 12:24:45 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9508221824.AA01010@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: Of slices and boot code.. To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Tue, 22 Aug 95 12:24:44 MDT Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@freefall.FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199508220543.PAA25256@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Aug 22, 95 03:43:27 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Here are my diffs to implement looking at and reporting the slice number > in the kernel. The diffs also remove the kludges to support the current > bogus floppy minor numbering. The floppy driver, MAKDEV, and everyone's > /dev/fd?* need to be updated before the kludges can be removed. Where are the MAKEDEV diffs? 8-). Actually, has any consideration been given to having MAKEDEV use sysctl in user land to ask the kernl what devices there are, and make them? The actual soloution is a devfs, where the nodes "just are" (except the cloners, of course). Where is the current devfs code? If it's not currently being hacked, I'd like to hack on it. It will help in porting by reducing the dependencies for an MFS. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.