The following reply was made to PR kern/29673; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jaromir Dolecek <dolecek@s102-n054.tele2.cz>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: martin@duskware.de
Subject: Re: kern/29673: Separate joy and tun in MAKEDEV.tmpl
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 13:17:18 +0100

 On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 11:54:01AM +0000, Martin Husemann wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR kern/29673; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
 > To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: kern/29673: Separate joy and tun in MAKEDEV.tmpl
 > Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 12:53:52 +0100
 > 
 >  On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 10:09:00AM +0000, fun@naobsd.org wrote:
 >  > 	evbppc port has tun(4) but doesn't have joy(4).
 >  > 	"tun*|joy*)" part in MAKEDEV.tmpl must be separated.
 >  
 >  I don't see why this would be needed - support for creating /dev/joy* in
 >  MAKEDEV does not harm, if it's unused. Or am I missing something?
 >  
 >  On the other hand, I don't see why these two are handled together either.
 
 The way it works is that entries using unsupported devices
 (joy in this case) are removed when platform MAKEDEV is genereated.
 This means the tun was removed too along the joy.
 
 Now it's separate, so it works as intended - i.e. no joy entry, only tun entry 
 in the final MAKEDEV.
 
 Jaromir
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