Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 22:06:05 -0700 (MST) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> To: chris@calldei.com Cc: tanimura@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Seigo Tanmura), sjr@home.net, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make_dev() warnings Message-ID: <199911120506.WAA32319@panzer.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <19991111230337.M48527@holly.calldei.com> from Chris Costello at "Nov 11, 1999 11:03:38 pm"
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Chris Costello wrote... > On Thu, Nov 11, 1999, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > Chris Costello wrote... > > > On Thu, Nov 11, 1999, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > > > So while cdevsw_add() need only be called once for each device type, > > > > make_dev() (once we get DEVFS, I imagine) will probably have to be called > > > > once for each device node added. > > > > > > If it's a problem, then make_dev should be changed to > > > facilitate the type of behavior that would be most efficient for > > > disk devices. > > > > What do you mean? > > You said that cdevsw_add() is called only once for each device > type, while make_dev will be called for each node. Is that a > problem? (I assumed it was.) It's not a problem. In fact, there's probably no other easy way to do it if we're going to eventually go to DEVFS. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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