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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. Umm... why post this here? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Seriously, that's what *-devel mailing lists are for. I doubt that the average (and even the not-so-average) Slashdot reader cares.

    (And, this is certainly not the place that FreeBSD device driver writers come to discuss changes to the kernel.)