Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!shemesh.tis.com!mark From: mark@hilo.trusted.com () Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.programmer Subject: Re: S: sample device driver LKM Date: 7 Jul 1996 04:18:47 GMT Organization: Trusted Information Systems Lines: 14 Message-ID: <4rndr7$m4s@shemesh.tis.com> References: <199607030100023204807@q700.hf.org> <31D9BCE6.6C344BCE@lambert.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: relay.tis.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3952 comp.unix.programmer:39185 In article <31D9BCE6.6C344BCE@lambert.org>, Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote: >FreeBSD is moving towards a devfs implementation of devices, >which will remove the need for cdevsw/bdevsw entirely, and >replace major/minor numbers in the specfs with vnodes in a >devfs, which you index by looking up in the directory hierarchy. Does this mean you end up having a rather large number of file systems mounted (e.g. 1 for the console, 1 for SCSI disks, 1 for IDE disks, 1 for etc...)? Or is it a single file system mounted on /dev which implements some structure that is analogous to the [bc]devsw arrays? Mark S.