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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!wupost!emory!ogicse!usenet.ee.pdx.edu!acacia!rgrimes 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.) Message-ID: <1nj0ej$j6s@walt.ee.pdx.edu> Date: 9 Mar 93 20:58:59 GMT Article-I.D.: walt.1nj0ej$j6s References: <C3MCIF.Iv@sugar.neosoft.com> Organization: Portland State University Lines: 16 NNTP-Posting-Host: acacia.cs.pdx.edu 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.