fdclone KPI

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Wed Apr 9 18:32:20 UTC 2008


On Wednesday 09 April 2008 12:01:44 am Kostik Belousov wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 04:09:30PM -0700, Rick Hunnicutt wrote:
> > I'm curious if someone can tell me why the fdclone KPI was not included in 
the 7.0 release?
> 
> Because it got no
> - review;
> - interest from the driver authors;
> - agreement that this is the way to go.

Oof, where is the patch?  I think it is definitely easier for people to use 
than devfs cloning when all that is needed is per-instance data.  I would use 
it in the ipmi(4) driver and the nvidia graphics driver would likely prefer 
it to devfs cloning as well.

-- 
John Baldwin


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