HEADSUP: Change of makedev() semantics.
Julian Elischer
julian at elischer.org
Tue Sep 30 18:20:17 PDT 2003
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> Basically:
>
> 1. Do not call makedev().
>
> 2. If you do cloning, please look at the patches I posted
> for if_tun/if_tap for how to do it.
>
show an actual document please, explaining how this works from the
user's POV..
> 3. If you do a "normal" device driver, cache the result
> from when you call make_dev().
>
> 4. If you translate "foreign dev_t's", ie emulators or
> compat code, contact me. I'm not sure I understand
> how this works and should work and we need to talk.
>
> 5. If anything else or in doubt, ask me.
more docs on how you invisage clonign to work.
>
> Can I see some volounteers and/or maintainers please ?
>
> ./dev/nmdm/nmdm.c
> pseudo-cloning. Should do real cloning.
>
If the documentation is easily available and it does what I want I'll
convert it..
It may be available but I haven't seen it.. man make_dev(9) doesn't have
any 'see also' section that helps..
So, why should I not revoke a vnode that now refers to nothing?
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