Re: FreeBSD devfs support on NetBSD 5.0

[Antti Kantee <pooka%cs.hut.fi@localhost>]

On Tue Jun 16 2009 at 15:24:45 -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> >> 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 ?

Can we get an estimate of how many years until it's finished?
I'm interested in *a* working implementation.  Whoever delivers first,
I'll use it.