Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
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> I'm currently testing the Vinum/NetBSD code that the Infosys people
> sent me.  It's still a bit rough round the edges, but I have got to
> the stage where I can build a kernel with Vinum "support" and talk to
> the driver.  I currently have a few questions:
> 
> 1.  vinum(8) has a command-line mode and uses readline for command
>     line editing and history.  I can find the headers for readline,
>     but I can't find a library.  What's the policy?  Is readline
>     deprecated?  I've found editline, but the interface is quite
>     different, and I'd prefer to keep things the same.

editline has readline compatibility layer. You use <readline.h>
and link against editline. Should be fine for simple readline stuff -
if not, I can work with you on extending editline readline layer.
 
> 2.  I see that direct access to bdevsw[] is no longer used.  Instead,
>     there's the bdevsw_lookup() function.  In the case of Vinum,
>     bdevsw accesses are either to Vinum itself, or to one of the
>     drives.  Can I assume that the drive will not lose its bdevsw?  Or
>     should I call bdevsw_lookup() for every I/O?

Every driver defines it's own bdevsw, which is added to system lists
on boot.

So no, you can't 'lose' your bdevsw.

Jaromir 
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