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From: anarcat@tao.ca
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: devfs modules entry points to the attic
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>Number:         27252
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       devfs modules entry points to the attic
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    phk
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu May 10 11:00:01 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:    Sun May 13 00:00:01 PDT 2001
>Last-Modified:  Sun May 13 00:01:35 PDT 2001
>Originator:     The Anarcat
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.3-stable
>Organization:
Nada, Inc
>Environment:
recent cvs repository
>Description:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/devfs/ points to
http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/miscfs/devfs/ 

As recorded by the cvs log of (e.g.) the src/sys/miscfs/devfs/Attic/README:

Revision 1.8, Sun Aug 20 21:34:36 2000 UTC (8 months, 2 weeks ago) by phk 
Branch: MAIN 
CVS Tags: HEAD 
Changes since 1.7: +1 -1 lines
FILE REMOVED 

  Remove all traces of Julians DEVFS (incl from kern/subr_diskslice.c)
...
>How-To-Repeat:
Goto: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/devfs/
>Fix:
Change the modules line:

devfs           src/sys/miscfs/devfs

by:

devfs           src/sys/fs/devfs

Sorry, no access to a decent system to make a diff(1)
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->phk 
Responsible-Changed-By: ru 
Responsible-Changed-When: Thu May 10 11:13:00 PDT 2001 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Let MAINTAINER handle this. 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=27252 

From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To: anarcat@tao.ca
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: misc/27252: devfs modules entry points to the attic
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 16:55:03 +1000 (EST)

 On Thu, 10 May 2001 anarcat@tao.ca wrote:
 
 > >Fix:
 > Change the modules line:
 > 
 > devfs           src/sys/miscfs/devfs
 > 
 > by:
 > 
 > devfs           src/sys/fs/devfs
 
 The modules file is not tagged, so this would break checking out devfs
 as a module under old versions of FreeBSD including all current
 releases.  The new devfs module has to be named something ugly like
 sys_fs_devfs.  It probably should never have had a short name anyway.
 One name is good enough for the not unused module sys_kern.  However,
 most miscfs's have between 3 and 5 names (1 for the LKM module, on
 for the "kld" module, one short name, one longer name with a "sys_"
 prefix, and one longer longer name with a "sys_miscfs_" prefix).
 
 Bruce
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: phk 
State-Changed-When: Sun May 13 00:00:01 PDT 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
As Bruce already noted, the modules file is not tagged so it is 
not clear what the correct action is here while 4.x is a live 
branch. 

Modules in the src/sys tree are less than useful, since you need the 
entire kernel-source to compile anything anyway. 


http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=27252 
>Unformatted:
