From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Dec 3 16:44: 4 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 3 16:44:01 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8556A37B400; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 16:44:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id QAA03474; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 16:43:23 -0800 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda03472; Sun Dec 3 16:43:13 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.11.1/8.9.1) id eB40h8R40425; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 16:43:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from cwsys9.cwsent.com(10.2.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdP40419; Sun Dec 3 16:42:15 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.11.1/8.9.1) id eB40gEH63427; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 16:42:14 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200012040042.eB40gEH63427@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdb63422; Sun Dec 3 16:42:06 2000 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-OS: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE X-Mailer: nmh 1.0.4, Exmh 2.1.1 X-Sender: cy To: Brandon Fosdick Cc: Matt Dillon , "David O'Brien" , Gregory Bond , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: device numbers (was Re: Removal of Disklabel) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 03 Dec 2000 17:35:36 EST." <3A2ACAB8.EB6632CD@glue.umd.edu> Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 16:42:06 -0800 Sender: cy@uumail.gov.bc.ca Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <3A2ACAB8.EB6632CD@glue.umd.edu>, Brandon Fosdick writes: > Matt Dillon wrote: > > > > :Matt Dillon wrote: > > :> Eventually we won't need device nubers at all, but for now we are somew > hat > stuck. > > : > > :Can you elaborate on that for the curious? > > > > If I remember correctly, the work Poul is doing with the new dev_t > > infrastructure and the work Julian (and others?) are doing with devfs > > will eventually lead to us being able to have a dynamic /dev, where > > device numbers are assigned on the fly. > > Nice. Any idea when this will happen? I've seen talk of devfs before but > haven't heard anything concrete. It's mentioned in the release notes for 2.1, > so > I kinda thought it would be here by now. There was some discussion about this two years aog. IIRC the issue of manually defining devices was yet to be resolved. Discussion about an interface (API and command line tool?) indicated that this hadn't been resolved yet. Are we any further to a solution? Search the -stable archives for "DEVFS (was Re: More problems with new slice code )" for the original thread. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message