Re: FreeBSD devfs support on NetBSD 5.0

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

On Saturday 20 June 2009 12:02:37 Iain Hibbert wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Jun 2009, David Holland wrote:
>
> David, I think you are heading way off target and are floundering around
> in the bushes.
>
> > (1) Adding (external) objects to the file system namespace is
> > fundamentally a mount operation.
>
> # mknod /dev/mynode c 33 44
>

What I have currently is:

mkdir /dev/dev
mount_devfs /dev/dev

I'm not interested about having anything like a union-fs.

And therefore I don't have any patches to the NetBSD kernel. It is a separate 
module like tmpfs, which I would like to have maintained by NetBSD people.

--HPS