From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 11 14:00:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA07954 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 14:00:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu (friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu [129.186.185.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA07822; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 14:00:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ccsanady@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu) Received: from friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA00562; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 15:59:51 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from ccsanady@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu) Message-Id: <199809112059.PAA00562@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: sos@FreeBSD.ORG cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), bright@hotjobs.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS questions. In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 11 Sep 1998 22:29:06 +0200." <199809112029.WAA29761@sos.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 15:59:50 -0500 From: Chris Csanady Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id OAA07879 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >In reply to Jordan K. Hubbard who wrote: >> > Well, I usr DEVFS on all my machines, make it alot easier when fiddeling >> > with device drivers, ie the devices come and go by themselves, no need >> > to fiddle with MAKEDEV, and for that pupose it works very well. >> > The SLICE code OTOH has been in the way too many times to be usefull >> > for me at least. >> >> That's to say that you use DEVFS without SLICE defined? >> >> Hmmm. You must not try to make releases on that box - you don't >> get any entries for /dev/vnX that way and it makes this somewhat >> difficult. :-) > >Yes, the vn driver needs to be taught about devfs... So does the ccd driver. :) I have been wanting this for a while.. Perhaps I will take a look at it. I was somewhat confused at how the slice stuff fits in though. Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message