Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com> wrote:
>>- What do you think that many macros for each devices are defined in 
>>sys/conf.h
>>   or machine/conf.h? In addition, in order to use that macros compels us to
>>   define many new functions same as nullop/enodev and kludge aliases.
>
>Shouldn't be needed; but they do make prototypes easier.

Yes. But we should consider which is useful or not, I think.

>>The bdevsw/cdevsw tables are dealed with in the abstract to support
>>to attach/detach the bdevsw/cdevsw data dynamically. Each drivers should
>>use devsw_get(9) and devsw_lookup(9) to get the device interface instead of
>>accessing them directly.
>
>decsw_get I like.  Not sure about devsw_lookup.  It seems hackish.

In some ports we must generate dev_t from the devsw name at
the boot time, right?
(yes, after applied my patch, still remain hard-coding of majors...)

>>In order to support this feature, add the new grammer 'device-switch'
>>to 'files'. In my current implementation, all 'device-switch' is in
>>the new file 'devsw.<arch>' under sys/arch/<arch>/conf.
>
>Sigh.  Another file.

Now devsw.<arch> is included from files.<arch>.
Should 'device-switch'es be just in files.<arch>?
Even so, I can change very easily. ok. No problems.

>And are placed in ioconf.c?  or someplace else?

I'm not sure...

>Somehow I think this needs to connected to struct cfdriver but
>the don't exist for pseudo-devices (maybe they should).

I think so.

>>d_major         - An alias to the major number to avoid linear searching 
>>tables
>>                   (should be -1 in the source. In initialization phase or
>>                    dynamically attach phase, filled out by proper value.)
>
>Does really need to be in the devsw?  Considering how little it will
>be used, it could be calculated and would allow the devsw to read-only.

Now I am trying to remove this field. Just wait for a moment.

>options are like pty or fd or scsibus?

Yes.

>If you have multi device-switch for the same name, will the latter
>take priority?

Sorry, I don't think of an example sooner...
Could you show me an example?

--- MAEKAWA Masahide