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Date:      Mon, 02 Oct 2000 21:54:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Tony Fleisher <takhus@takhus.mind.net>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bpf "fix"
Message-ID:  <XFMail.001002215431.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010022137191.29738-100000@takhus-home.ashlandfn.org>

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On 03-Oct-00 Tony Fleisher wrote:
> I submitted a PR on this a few weeks ago.
> 
> See: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=21391 for comments
> from phk.

Hmm, well your patch would break in the non-DEVFS case.  In the non-DEVFS
case, open() still needs to call make_dev(), but I'm eager to see what phk's
better solution is. :-P

> On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
>> I stared at the bpf code some last week, and determined that the
>> extra make_dev() was in bpf's open() method in the non-devfs
>> case.  As such, I have a rather simple patch.  However, I don't
>> like a driver having to be aware of devfs.  Does anyone have any
>> other (preferably cleaner) ways to fix this?
>> 
>> http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/bpf.patch
>> 
>> Index: net/bpf.c
>> ===================================================================
>> RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/sys/net/bpf.c,v
>> retrieving revision 1.67
>> diff -u -r1.67 bpf.c
>> --- net/bpf.c   2000/09/19 10:28:41     1.67
>> +++ net/bpf.c   2000/09/27 00:51:30
>> @@ -363,8 +363,10 @@
>>          */
>>         if (d)
>>                 return (EBUSY);
>> -       make_dev(&bpf_cdevsw, minor(dev), UID_ROOT, GID_WHEEL, 0600,
>> -           "bpf%d", dev2unit(dev));
>> +       /* XXX - ugly, we shouldn't have to know about devfs here */
>> +       if (!devfs_present)
>> +               make_dev(&bpf_cdevsw, minor(dev), UID_ROOT, GID_WHEEL, 0600,
>> +                   "bpf%d", dev2unit(dev));
>>         MALLOC(d, struct bpf_d *, sizeof(*d), M_BPF, M_WAITOK);
>>         bzero(d, sizeof(*d));
>>         dev->si_drv1 = d;
>> 
>> -- 
>> 
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