Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 21:39:22 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: per-device sysctls Message-ID: <3062.1077827962@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Feb 2004 13:03:30 MST." <20040226.130330.54448406.imp@bsdimp.com>
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In message <20040226.130330.54448406.imp@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes: >: Just for the record: Having based this on newbus it only documents >: hardware-anchored device drivers. I don't know if this is going to >: be a limitation we will have to address or not, but I think you should >: reserve the toplevel name "pseudo" or "sw" or similar as a placeholder >: for non-hardware device drivers, just in case. > >There's not really a tree for pseudo devices right now. They just are >kludged into the system any old way that they can be at the moment. >They aren't part of the hardware device hierarchy. As long as we agree that this is for hardware only and limited to that, then I have no problems. I still think it prudent to nail down "pseudo" or "sw" or something should we change our mind. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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