On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 09:34:13PM +0200, Antti Kantee wrote: > > Well, that's sort of an explanation, although I might clarify it some > > if it were me... but I can't see what purpose these things serve since > > they're identical to the standard ones. If there's compat_ultrix logic > > that recognizes them and does something special, I can't find it. > > > > Could they be removed, or is there some chewing gum sticking the logic > > together somewhere that I've missed? (If so, it should be mentioned > > explicitly...) > > We can't have two majors mapped to the same devsw (at least that was > my assumption?). Those couldn't be (re)moved easily, so I let them stay.
I can believe that. The other question I guess is whether it really needs two sets of majors, since in theory compat_ultrix can/should have its own [bc]devsw. But that's for someone with historical knowledge of the pmax port to look into... -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org
