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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!uuneo!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Some ideas on the driver interface (was: Re: Release of drivers etc.) Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1993 01:05:33 GMT Message-ID: <C3p9p9.751@sugar.neosoft.com> References: <C3MCIF.Iv@sugar.neosoft.com> <1nj0ej$j6s@walt.ee.pdx.edu> <1nkdph$m0o@Germany.EU.net> Lines: 20 In article <1nkdph$m0o@Germany.EU.net> bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) writes: > |> You really want to duplicate /dev/MAKEDEV in every kernel config file? That > |> sounds like storing duplicate data. > How about cases where you compile kernels for a different machine > with different sorts of majors and minors ? That's EXACTLY the case this would most help. You could build the new kernel without futzing with the old conf.c. > In article <1nj0ej$j6s@walt.ee.pdx.edu>, rgrimes@acacia (Rodney W. Grimes) writes: > |> 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. Again, no more than I'm saying config should always move the kernel into "/". -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Oletko halannut suttasi tänään? 'U` Tarjoilija, tämä ateria elää vielä.