Re: netbsd-7 kernel and older vnconfig(8)

[manu%netbsd.org@localhost (Emmanuel Dreyfus)]

Christos Zoulas <christos%zoulas.com@localhost> wrote:

> I just tried it and it does not work. The current userland code fails with
> vnd4, (an artifact of config_makeroom)... So the old userland code depended
> on ENXIO to stop the search, the new code expects all devices in /dev/ to
> be get'able.

Would it make sense for the kernel to lookup /dev/vnd%d and return ENXIO
if it does not exist? Such a code being #ifdef COMPAT_NETBSD6 of course.

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