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
already
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)
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
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 that
