NVIDIA FreeBSD kernel feature requests
Oleksandr Tymoshenko
gonzo at pbxpress.com
Thu Jun 29 17:59:39 UTC 2006
Alexander Kabaev wrote:
> WHY it smells like a hack? It was designed precisely to do that. I am
> using cloned devices in our product with great success. Every client
> opening 'magic' device gets its own exclusive cloned device instance
> and everything works like a charm. I am yet to hear any single coherent
> description of what Linux's approach has over device cloning in FreeBSD.
> I wouldn't mind being educated on this.
OK, it's a lack of my knowledge. It seemed a bit unnatural to me
to create device nodes instead of keeping a single pointer and I decided
it was supposed to do something other then keeping per-open instance.
It would be great to have this event/mechanism documented for I'd found
it looking through source code in /usr/src/sys. Not the worst place to
get information but man pages are better :)
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Sincerely,
Oleksandr Tymoshenko
PBXpress Communications, Inc.
http://www.pbxpress.com
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