Re: devctl_notify system is inconsistent

From: Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2022 15:47:45 UTC 
On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 7:53 AM Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 7:45 AM Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 1:36 AM Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>
>> wrote:
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>>> "kern" vs "kernel"
>>>
>>
>> They are consistent. With one exception that I deprecated in 13.x to be
>> removed in 14.x. I documented all of them at the time in devd.conf. I
>> think
>> I'll go ahead and complete the deprecation.
>>
>
> I've created https://reviews.freebsd.org/D37582 to do the deed.
>
> Though thinking about it now, there's no 'whining' in about the old one
> being used,
> so users may be surprised by it. I may need to create another transition
> tool in devd
> for this.
>

https://reviews.freebsd.org/D37584 is the other one that converts 'kern' to
'kernel' in devd rules
on the fly (issuing a warning for 14.x and older, but an error for 15.x and
newer) .

Warner