Re: FreeBSD devfs support on NetBSD 5.0

[Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky%c2i.net@localhost>]

On Tuesday 16 June 2009 21:31:04 Antti Kantee wrote:
> 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.

The NetBSD 4/3 version is available from:

svn --username anonsvn --password anonsvn \
      checkout svn://svn.turbocat.net/i4b

cd i4b/trunk/i4b/module

freebsd_devfs_devs.c
freebsd_devfs_vfsops.c
freebsd_devfs_vnops.c

--HPS