Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 09:53:40 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How much do we need the all-singing, all-dancing devfs? Message-ID: <16935.964598020@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Jul 2000 09:56:11 %2B0200." <20000726095611.B68912@ywing.creative.net.au>
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In message <20000726095611.B68912@ywing.creative.net.au>, Adrian Chadd writes: >ok. There should not be a reason why you can't simply register your FC >devices as '/dev/fc/$label' or even '/dev/$label' rather than '/dev/da1a'. >A "true" devfs would not pretend to impose a "%s%d", majorstring, minorunit >type namespace in front of all devices, and so neither should you. >If you have a generic FC layer which handles mapping physical devices to >logical devices, I can't see a problem here. Devfs will give each device a "canonical name" and as many aliases as you like. The aliases will show up as symlinks. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | 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
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