VirtualBox-kmod fails to build on -CURRENT

Ed Schouten ed at 80386.nl
Mon Oct 31 10:26:03 UTC 2011


Hi Bernhard,

* Bernhard Froehlich <decke at FreeBSD.org>, 20111031 11:04:
> My first guess is that it could be enough to remove the flag but I
> don't know if we need to replace some code with make_dev_p(). So i've
> CC'd ed@ and hope that he can shed some light on that.
> 
> https://www.virtualbox.org/browser/trunk/src/VBox/HostDrivers/Support/freebsd/SUPDrv-freebsd.c#L104

Hmmm... You can simply remove D_PSEUDO for now, but I think eventually
the driver should be restructured a bit. It seems we can simply use the
cdevpriv API for this, where we have a single /dev/vboxdrv device node.

I think I'll take a closer look at this code more thoroughly sometime
this week.

-- 
 Ed Schouten <ed at 80386.nl>
 WWW: http://80386.nl/
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