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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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