Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 17:19:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help, DEVFS/MFS is broken... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9809151718230.270-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980915152641.1530D-100000@current1.whistle.com>
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On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Julian Elischer wrote: > > It's all irrelevent now as someone deleted all the SLICE stuff out of the > kernel tree. Apparently phk an sos are now doing all the work to make > devices dynamic. They will probably delete all the devfs code as well > so that they have a clean slate to work on.. > > (I only discoverd it when all my slice files were deleted from my tree on > 'cvs update') > > It seems that an abstracted disk layer is not considered important enough > to work on.. It seemed more to me like unpolished code has no place in 3.0-R was the mentality. And, I'd have to agree there. I'd much rather wait and see a decent devfs and slice code in 3.0.5-R than see broken code which can cause panics in 3.0-R. - alex | "Contrary to popular belief, penguins are not the salvation of modern | | technology. Neither do they throw parties for the urban proletariat." | | Powered by FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/ | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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