svn commit: r197518 - in head: share/man/man4 sys/amd64/conf sys/boot/forth sys/conf sys/dev/lindev sys/i386/conf sys/modules sys/modules/lindev sys/pc98/conf

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

"Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> Log:
>   lindev(4) [1] is supposed to be a collection of linux-specific pseudo
>   devices that we also support, just not by default (thus only LINT or
>   module builds by default).
>   
>   While currently there is only "/dev/full" [2], we are planning to see more
>   in the future.  We may decide to change the module/dependency logic in the
>   future should the list grow too long.
>   
>   This is not part of linux.ko as also non-linux binaries like kFreeBSD
>   userland or ports can make use of this as well.
>   
>   Suggested by:	rwatson [1] (name)
>   Submitted by:	ed [2]
>   Discussed with:	markm, ed, rwatson, kib (weeks ago)
>   Reviewed by:	rwatson, brueffer (prev. version)
>   PR:		kern/68961
>   MFC after:	6 weeks

Also discussed with: des, who was in favor - both of the concept and of
the implementation.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no