Richard Gooch wrote:
> >
> > So instead there are 520 separate chunks of kernel memory... a
> > device driver I'm hacking on right now is about 3x the size with
> > devfs support than without
>
> I find that really hard to believe. You'd have to make an awful lot of
> calls to devfs functions to increase the code that much.
>
> > (not to mention I can't find any documentation on the devfs kernel
> > API, so I just gave up.)
>
> So if you gave up, how do you know it's 3x bigger?
>
I didn't get it to work in the end. I looked at the code size of the
nonfunctional version.
> The API is documented in fs/devfs/base.c in a format designed to be
> automatically extracted.
The Documentation subdirectory is there for a reason.
-hpa
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