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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!Germany.EU.net!qwerty!bs From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: Some ideas on the driver interface (was: Re: Release of drivers etc.) Date: 10 Mar 1993 09:52:48 GMT Organization: EUnet Backbone, Dortmund, Germany Lines: 12 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1nkdph$m0o@Germany.EU.net> References: <C3MCIF.Iv@sugar.neosoft.com> <1nj0ej$j6s@walt.ee.pdx.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: qwerty.germany.eu.net In article <1nj0ej$j6s@walt.ee.pdx.edu>, rgrimes@acacia (Rodney W. Grimes) writes: |> 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. How about cases where you compile kernels for a different machine with different sorts of majors and minors ? Putting this into the config file seems a bad idea to me. -Bernard