In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Gallatin
writes:
>
>Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
> >
> > As soon as these uses of cloning code has been removed, I will move
> > the floppy and CD drivers under GEOM, paving the way for the
> > significant changes to the buf/VM system which some of you have
> >
Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
>
> As soon as these uses of cloning code has been removed, I will move
> the floppy and CD drivers under GEOM, paving the way for the
> significant changes to the buf/VM system which some of you have
> already heard rumours about. (more will emerge after BSDcon'03
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Gallatin
writes:
>Can you give a hint as to what you mean by the significant buf/VM
>system changes? Are you talking about removing the vnode detour for
>drivers and giving drivers who want it access to the struct file?
Well, there really isn't more than t
I am committing a BURN_BRIDGES patch which puts the density select
devices of the floppy driver and the 'a' and 'c' compat partitions of
the CD drivers on the chopping block for 6-current.
There is no loss of functionality from this, the fdcontrol(8) utility
allows even greater flexibility than t
