Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 15:00:18 -0700 From: Jack Rusher <jar@integratus.com> To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How much do we need the all-singing, all-dancing devfs? Message-ID: <397E0DF2.FDC595C5@integratus.com> References: <14653.964561230@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > You can still get a listing of the "canonical" names like "/dev/ad0", > "/dev/ad0s1c" and so on. > > It is only "potential names" which are not listed until they have > been instantiated. Um... forgive me if this is obvious and the cough syrup I had this morning is weighing me down, but how do you know to which object (by which I mean storage device, partition, etc) the "canonical" name points to? Matthew Jacob wrote: > > ad hoc, even as it is now- 'camcontrol devlist' and parsing dmesg output. This is what I was afraid of. It strikes me that this sort of sucks, and that there really should be a better way. This is the sort of thing that a devfs is meant to make go away, isn't it? -- Jack Rusher, Senior Engineer | mailto:jar@integratus.com Integratus, Inc. | http://www.integratus.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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