From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Feb 13 21:55: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (flutter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78FF437B65D for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:54:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1E5suw55331; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 06:54:56 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: now that DEVFS is standard.... In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Feb 2001 18:41:29 PST." Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 06:54:56 +0100 Message-ID: <55329.982130096@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Matthew Jacob writes: > >....Can we now have wildcarded major numbers for creating devices? > >I mean, now that we have the name just appear each time you boot, the actual >major number is not all that relevant now, is it? Weeeeeeell, devfs is default, but not mandatory so we still support running !devfs systems, and unfortunately I suspect we will do so for some time still. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message