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HEADSUP: Change of Makedev() Semantics on FreeBSD

Posted by Hemos on from the semphores-away dept.

Dan writes "FreeBSD's Poul-Henning Kamp is in the process of adding ref-counting and locking to dev_t, and would very much prefer if this step is completed soon before 5-STABLE gets branched. He says that all this will be transparent to the majority of device drivers, as the refcounting will happen in the make_dev() and destroy_dev() family of calls and normal drivers need not know more about it."

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  1. Re:Anything to comment about? by __past__ · · Score: 2, Informative
    Anyone know why this is a good/bad thing?
    It's a completly uninteresting thing that will not affect any users, and only a few device driver developers.
    The stuff concerning dev_t on the LKML concerned itself with tty stuff.
    What does the LKML have to do with anything?
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