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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. Does this need a Slashdot article ? by chrysalis · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I really don't understand why every time a single line of code is changed to this beta version of FreeBSD, a Slashdot article is made.

    Moreover something like that one... Except some rare developpers, nobody knows what it actually changes. Just because in fact... nothing changes... only internals. So what's the point?

    And the 3.4 OpenBSD song has been released :

    http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html

    Why is there no Slashdot article about this?

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