Re: toolchain/38280: config(1) should emit devsw.h for devsw declarations in devsw.c

[Quentin Garnier <cube%cubidou.net@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR toolchain/38280; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Quentin Garnier <cube%cubidou.net@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost
Subject: Re: toolchain/38280: config(1) should emit devsw.h for devsw 
declarations in devsw.c
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:49:04 +0100

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 On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 08:30:01PM +0000, tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost 
wrote:
 > >Number:         38280
 > >Category:       toolchain
 > >Synopsis:       config(1) should emit devsw.h for devsw declarations in =
 devsw.c
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       non-critical
 > >Priority:       low
 > >Responsible:    toolchain-manager
 > >State:          open
 > >Class:          change-request
 > >Submitter-Id:   net
 > >Arrival-Date:   Sat Mar 22 20:30:00 +0000 2008
 > >Originator:     Izumi Tsutsui
 > >Release:        NetBSD 4.99.55
 > >Organization:
 > >Environment:
 > Machine independent
 > >Description:
 > Currently many sources and drivers have declarations like
 > "extern const struct cdevsw foo_cdevsw;"
 
 Wouldn't it be better to fix drivers to use devsw_name2chr() and
 devsw_name2blk()?  Directly referencing something like that gives me
 an ewww feeling.
 
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