From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 27 17:24:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA18220 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 17:24:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from parkplace.cet.co.jp (parkplace.cet.co.jp [202.32.64.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA18196 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 17:24:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michaelh@cet.co.jp) Received: from localhost (michaelh@localhost) by parkplace.cet.co.jp (8.8.8/CET-v2.2) with SMTP id AAA21603; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 00:23:46 GMT Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 09:23:46 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock To: Doug Ambrisko cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS & sound drivers question In-Reply-To: <199804272030.NAA00121@whistle.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > Should DEVFS make these devices (MAKEDEV did)? > Should these be made as a sym-link and can DEVFS make a sym-link? DEVFS doesn't have a way to deal with user configured persistent data yet. Julian is talking about doing it with /etc/rc.devfs or something like that. The way refcounting works is confusing and has lead to tangents in the skeleton code for these ops, see VNSLEAZE. Regards, Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message