In message <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040207133959.30022A-100000_at_fledge.watson.org>, Robe rt Watson writes: >No objections to this patch (which is definitely a good thing), but I am >worried that letting make_dev() fail might open a can of worms. Initially (see my pseudo.patch) it will only be allowed to fail for device drivers which advertise their ability to cope with it. And that is a property which we should be able to make mandatory for psudo-device drivers since it typically is a minor change to their clone function. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Sat Feb 07 2004 - 13:48:37 UTC
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