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From: rgrimes@acacia (Rodney W. Grimes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: Some ideas on the driver interface (was: Re: Release of drivers etc.)
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Date: 9 Mar 93 20:58:59 GMT
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peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
: It would probably be best to integrate the master file and the BSD-ish config
: file somehow... maybe:
: 
: controller	wd0 at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 vector wdintr
: disk		wd0 at wd0 drive 0
: device		wd0 at major 0 minor wd0a 0 wd0b 1 wd0c 2 wd0d 3...
: disk		wd1 at wd1 drive 1
: device		wd1 at major 1 minor wd1a 8 wd1b 9 wd1c 10 wd1d 11...
: 
: [rest of example deleted]

You really want to duplicate /dev/MAKEDEV in every kernel config file?  That
sounds like storing duplicate data.  
Are you advocating that config do mknod's in /dev?  That would mean every
time you config a kernel /dev would get rebuilt.  Seems to be a waste.