Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 11:25:46 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Cc: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, Rick Hunnicutt <rk_hunnicutt@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: fdclone KPI Message-ID: <200804091125.46505.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20080409040144.GK21209@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> References: <321309.94192.qm@web37604.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20080409040144.GK21209@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
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On Wednesday 09 April 2008 12:01:44 am Kostik Belousov wrote: > On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 04:09:30PM -0700, Rick Hunnicutt wrote: > > I'm curious if someone can tell me why the fdclone KPI was not included in the 7.0 release? > > Because it got no > - review; > - interest from the driver authors; > - agreement that this is the way to go. Oof, where is the patch? I think it is definitely easier for people to use than devfs cloning when all that is needed is per-instance data. I would use it in the ipmi(4) driver and the nvidia graphics driver would likely prefer it to devfs cloning as well. -- John Baldwin
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