DISCUSSION: /dev/fd%d.%d and /dev/{a}cd%d[ac] to be discontinued ?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <16215.45030.31344.503298 at grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>, Andrew Gallatin 
writes:

>Can you give a hint as to what you mean by the significant buf/VM
>system changes?  Are you talking about removing the vnode detour for
>drivers and giving drivers who want it access to the struct file?

Well, there really isn't more than that at this point, we plan to talk
about it at BSDcon03 and try to settle on our strategy for the entire
area, and if we manage that we'll communicate it of course.

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