DISCUSSION: /dev/fd%d.%d and /dev/{a}cd%d[ac] to be
discontinued ?
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Oct 20 00:53:36 PDT 2003
In message <16215.45030.31344.503298 at grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>, Andrew Gallatin
writes:
>
>Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
> >
> > As soon as these uses of cloning code has been removed, I will move
> > the floppy and CD drivers under GEOM, paving the way for the
> > significant changes to the buf/VM system which some of you have
> > already heard rumours about. (more will emerge after BSDcon'03)
> >
> > And now comes the bit which I would like to offer for discussion:
> >
> > Should we do this for 5.2 instead ?
> >
>
>I think this sounds good.
>
>Can you give a hint as to what you mean by the significant buf/VM
>system changes? Are you talking about removing the vnode detour for
>drivers and giving drivers who want it access to the struct file?
... and all that stuff yes.
It's been discussed in various emails in the past.
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