On Sat, Jul 15, 2000, Boris Popov wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
> > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Coleman Kane writes:
> >
> > >Who is currently working on the DEVFS? I emailed the last person
> > >to commit to the HOWTO and got no response. I'd like to look into
> > >finisheing this, and may start hacking if no one tells me otherwise...
> >
> > bp@ has a non-working prototype, (as has julian@).
>
> Poul, I've made a mistake sending you an out of sync and not
> finished code.
>
> > None of them fixes the root-mount kludges.
>
> True, it requires some changes to VFS synch code.
>
> > None of them implement cloning devices.
>
> Again, wrong. If you disagree on what I've proposed it doesn't
> mean that it didn't work. It is _necessary_ to fix make_dev()
> usage/implementation to make cloning code clean.
Ok, how about you, phk and julian throw up a list of what devfs should do?
I am forming some ideas on how to solve the namespace and device cloning
issues, we might make some forward work on this finally? :-)
Adrian
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