Re: FreeBSD devfs support on NetBSD 5.0

[Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hi Antti,

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Antti Kantee<pooka%cs.hut.fi@localhost> wrote:
> On Sun Jun 14 2009 at 22:36:59 +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a FreeBSD devfs port for NetBSD 4.0. Now I'm upgrading my code base,
>> and I need to figure out what changes went into the NetBSD 5.0 file-system to
>> make my FreeBSD devfs port code work on NetBSD 5.0. Would it be an idea to
>> have my FreeBSD devfs layer into the NetBSD kernel, so that I'm saved the 
>> work
>> of updating the VFS portion of my  FreeBSD devfs layer, every time there is a
>> new NetBSD version out?
>
> Cool, I'm soon at a stage where I require devfs in NetBSD to avoid
> overbearing component configuration routines.  The file system stuff
> between 4.0 and 5.0 is quite different, but 5.0 and -current should be
> fairly similar.  For integration, -current would be better.
>
Isn't Matt J. Fleming already working on a devfs implementation, cf
the entry about the mjf-devfs in src/doc/BRANCHES ?

 - Arnaud