And the crowd goes wild!
Nick
>
> We have now come so far that we can start to kill cdevsw_add()
> calls and rely on make_dev() for most of the device drivers.
>
> Later today I will add a "nagging printf", which will trigger when
> a device is opened, which wasn't registered by the device driver
> with make_dev(). It will only trigger once per driver per boot.
>
> If you see messages along the line of:
>
> WARNING: driver foo should register devices with make_dev()
>
> Please let me and the drivers maintainer know.
>
> Disk drivers will still be treated slightly special treatment, so
> they will be exempt from this warning for now.
>
> Background Information:
>
> This is all part of the long push for DEVFS, before DEVFS can become
> a reality, we need all dev_t's to be created specifically with
> make_dev() so their name is available to DEVFS.
>
>
> --
> Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
> FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!
>
>
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