In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Bria
n F. Feldman" writes:
>On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Bria
>> n F. Feldman" writes:
>>
>> >> /ddname = find_dev/s/BLK/CHR/
>> >
>> >No, that's wrong. You cannot do buffered-type IO on a cdev. I committed
>> >a workaround, and now it works. There's no easy way around this, except
>> >possibly making kern.dumpdev a string (makes quite a bit of sense there...)
>>
>> Indeed. a dev_t should never be exported as such from the kernel
>> anymore, in particular not for bdevs. dumps and swap are the two
>> offenders left.
>
>Should I commit a similar workaround for the swap code too? Quite
>simple to do...
Please so, but I would appreciate if you would do me the favour of
hiding the guts of this monstrosity in kern/kern_conf.c in a function
called dev2budev() ?
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