Re: CVS commit: [mjf-devfs2] src/sys

[Andrew Doran <ad%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:11:07PM +0000, Matt Fleming wrote:

> Log Message:
> - Introduce new API for allowing device drivers to register/unregister
>   names for device nodes along with a corresponding dev_t.
> 
> - Make device drivers that technically never get attached and need device
>   nodes (mem, zero, null) provide an initialisation function, which gets
>   an entry in a table of init functions that devsw_init() calls when the
>   device switch tables are initialised.

Why not have them attached like any other pseudo device?

Andrew