HEADS UP: device name checking on device registration

Jaakko Heinonen jh at FreeBSD.org
Wed Oct 13 18:22:48 UTC 2010


On 2010-10-13, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> I think this seems good.

Thanks for looking at.

> Perhaps you could also fix devfs to not panic when somebody tries to
> make a device that already exists and just return an error with a
> diagnostic while you're at it?

I am not sure if I understand what you mean with this.
make_dev(9), make_dev_cred(9) and make_dev_credf(9) can't return an
error code.

-- 
Jaakko


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