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

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Nov 10,  6:26am, manu%netbsd.org@localhost (Emmanuel Dreyfus) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: netbsd-7 kernel and older vnconfig(8)

| 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.

Let's not add any more hacks. If we commit what's on HEAD now every version
will work.

christos