src/sys/dev/nulldev, branch main FreeBSD source tree https://cgit-dev.freebsd.org/src/atom?h=main 2000-10-02T20:16:37Z Move sys/dev/nulldev to sys/dev/null to be more consistent with naming 2000-10-02T20:16:37Z John Baldwin jhb@FreeBSD.org 2000-10-02T20:16:37Z urn:sha1:005b841fd6eded32359abd8812797c9c312c92f4 under sys/dev. Small style change; make function names less likely to clash with 2000-07-09T12:29:24Z Mark Murray markm@FreeBSD.org 2000-07-09T12:29:24Z urn:sha1:11197ed12c86556be024f3fd8997a3fa4406e68c existing names. "null" is too common a string; use "null_". New machine independant /dev/null and /dev/zero driver. This device is 2000-06-25T08:32:39Z Mark Murray markm@FreeBSD.org 2000-06-25T08:32:39Z urn:sha1:f6011da8dc1d2ecd3403c8c0120c850e01fc1172 severely stripped down compared with its predecessor, and is measurably a _lot_ faster. Many thanks to Jeroen van Gelderen for lots of good ideas. There is still a problem with this; it is written as a mudule, and as such is theoretically unloadable. However, there is no refcounting done as I would prefer to do that a'la device_busy(9), rather than some "home-rolled" scheme. The point is pretty moot, as /dev/null is effectively compulsory. Reviewed by: dfr