I simply forgot that I'd already proven this to be a "really good idea that
unfortunately didn't work at all" the *last* time I tried it. Now
I remember. Hmmm. I WILL defeat this evil problem.
udev_t in the kernel but still called dev_t in userland.
Provide functions to manipulate both types:
major() umajor()
minor() uminor()
makedev() umakedev()
dev2udev() udev2dev()
For now they're functions, they will become in-line functions
after one of the next two steps in this process.
Return major/minor/makedev to macro-hood for userland.
Register a name in cdevsw[] for the "filedescriptor" driver.
In the kernel the udev_t appears in places where we have the
major/minor number combination, (ie: a potential device: we
may not have the driver nor the device), like in inodes, vattr,
cdevsw registration and so on, whereas the dev_t appears where
we carry around a reference to a actual device.
In the future the cdevsw and the aliased-from vnode will be hung
directly from the dev_t, along with up to two softc pointers for
the device driver and a few houskeeping bits. This will essentially
replace the current "alias" check code (same buck, bigger bang).
A little stunt has been provided to try to catch places where the
wrong type is being used (dev_t vs udev_t), if you see something
not working, #undef DEVT_FASCIST in kern/kern_conf.c and see if
it makes a difference. If it does, please try to track it down
(many hands make light work) or at least try to reproduce it
as simply as possible, and describe how to do that.
Without DEVT_FASCIST I belive this patch is a no-op.
Stylistic/posixoid comments about the userland view of the <sys/*.h>
files welcome now, from userland they now contain the end result.
Next planned step: make all dev_t's refer to the same devsw[] which
means convert BLK's to CHR's at the perimeter of the vnodes and
other places where they enter the game (bootdev, mknod, sysctl).
Use colons instead of semi-colons in the default init_path to behave like
UNIX instead of DOS.
Suggested by: bde
Reminded by: des (with no hint as to *which* man page).
bad math: it does not handle page-boundary conditions, and will not
end up mapping all of the requested addresses. This will cause a panic:
page fault during probe on some systems. I have a machine that will
panic every time (when using the dpt driver) on kernel probe when there
are 5 drives installed. When there are 4 drives, it is fine.
Fix is to always allocate/deallocate an extra page.
There is also a bonus splx() fix on an early error return.
Submitted by: Mark J. Taylor <mtaylor@cybernet.com>
PR: 9367
some aha 1542B cards will return 0x7f for the unimplemented GEOMETRY
register.
This is a good 3.2 candidate.
PR: 11469
Submitted by: Thomas David Rivers
displace a real driver.
Revert rev 1.109.
Pick up a few things from elsewhere (a couple of SiS id's).
As an *experiment*, have the chip* driver claim (for reporting purposes)
IDE controllers if there isn't another PCI-aware ide or ata driver to
grab them. I've exported the match function since it could be used from
the ata-all.c code replacing ata_pcimatch() - but I have not touched the
ata code. I'd like to catch a few more devices this way, including USB
and other bridges etc.
massive thwunking to include an XS_CHANNEL value. Some changes of how
parameters are reported to outer layers (including bus, e.g.). Yet more
stirring around in isp_mboxcmd to try and get it right. Decode of 1080/1240
NVRAM.
