HEADSUP: Change of makedev() semantics.

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20030928230008.GF11520 at wantadilla.lemis.com>, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey"
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>On Sunday, 28 September 2003 at 23:22:07 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> Basically:
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>> 	3. If you do a "normal" device driver, cache the result
>> 	   from when you call make_dev().
>> ...
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>> 	./dev/vinum
>> 		Failure to cache result of make_dev() ?
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>Where should this be cached?  Can you point to example code?

Almost any other device driver.  It is usually stored in the softc
structure.

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