Jason Thorpe wrote:

>
> You can take a look at the "dmover" stuff, too... it is a "per-open 
> cloning" device.  All the magic happens in dmoverioopen().
>

Perfect!  This is _exactly_ what I was looking for... there's a lot of 
similarities with what the FreeBSD code is doing.  One thing I'm curious 
about, because both drivers do this:  why does the open function return 
ENXIO?

Thanks,
+j

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