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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:Umm... why post this here? by KDan · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's an evil plan I tell you. They post this random stuff that affects possibly 1 out of 100'000 slashdotters on here and dare call it a topic. Then I make a perfectly reasonable Simspons comparison between the headline (HEADSUP) and Ketchup (CATSUP), and they mod me as troll... tsk tsk tsk...

    Daniel

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