On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 04:31:49PM -0700 I heard the voice of Nate Lawson, and lo! it spake thus: > On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, dmk wrote: [...] > > The attached diff effectively restructures the rtc device driver to > > perform the make_dev() at module load. The driver may have problems, but > > it does work, and, unlike the first diff, doesn't segfault on unload. ;-) > > > > (I don't claim to write C or hack kernels, so this presented as-is in > > Generally it's more appropriate to do cdevsw_add() in module init and then > make_dev() in each open. That's the ONLY way to do it if you have > multiple instances of a device (e.g. BPF).
Yes, but... ;-) That way doesn't work with VMware. The restructured way does. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about what's going on to fix it the Right Way, which I presume would involve fixing VMware. Can anyone suggest where I should be looking? > -Nate dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
