Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 16:54:23 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Review/Test: Pseudo-device unit number management patch Message-ID: <p06020404bc4c5fcbfe49@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <16065.1076227919@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <16065.1076227919@critter.freebsd.dk>
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At 9:11 AM +0100 2/8/04, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >Julian Elischer writes: > > > > Previously, nmdm started off with 4 devices visible in /dev now > > I don't see that.. The old behaviour was intuitive... You saw > > a device. > >This new behaviour is called a "cloning device" and it doesn't >allocate any resources until they are actually needed, which I >believe is the correct behaviour for pseudo-devices. Could there be some kind of fake "marker-device" sitting there, one which would use basically no resources, and which would change to the real-device when someone opens it? I do like the idea of some visible marker there, instead of expecting people to "just know" exactly what device-name to type. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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