Kazutaka YOKOTA scribbled this message on Jul 24:
>
> >> I am afraid this is not quite right.
> >>
> >> Bruce, Doug and I are currently in discussion to fix this.
> >
> >Hrm. Why does the AXP cons.c track udev_t while the x86 verson
> >doesn't? As best as I can tell, the AXP doesn't seem to need it any
> >more than the x86 does, unless I've missed something.
>
> As dev_t is now a struct, we cannot track dev_t for SYSCTL. It has to
> be udev_t. sys/i386/i386/cons.c should be doing the same as the alpha
> version, rather than vice versa.
>
> To quote Bruce: "alpha/alpha/cons.c should be identical with
> i386/i386/cons.c and not in a machine-dependent place. All current
> differences are bugs" :-)
hmmm.. guess it's time for me to bring out my MI cons.c that I did a
long time ago and dust it off?? Bruce kinda vetoed it, but I also didn't
have the courage to commit it back then... and it's not hard to make
it MI....
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