From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 1 3:18:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAA1C14E7B; Sat, 1 Jan 2000 03:18:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id MAA25151; Sat, 1 Jan 2000 12:15:26 +0100 (MET) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA52595; Sat, 1 Jan 2000 00:34:24 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wilko) Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 00:34:24 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Chuck Robey Cc: Brian Fundakowski Feldman , FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: multiple cd devices (MAKEDEV) Message-ID: <20000101003424.A52465@yedi.iaf.nl> References: <19991231171314.A92878@yedi.iaf.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from chuckr@picnic.mat.net on Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 03:15:02PM -0500 X-OS: FreeBSD yedi.iaf.nl 3.4-STABLE FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 03:15:02PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: > On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > > Why are "certain" devices wildly different than all other ones? I've > > > > never encountered that kind of syntax before, and I can't see that it's > > > > documented anywhere at all. Certainly, MAKEDEV itself (in it's > > > > comments) treats cd* just like all the others, specifying that the number > > > > following is a unit number, and *not* a quantity. I don't know when this > > > > happened, but it's surely not obvious. Not one word in the handbook, > > > > either. > > > > > > *shrug* This is the only rationality I could think of. Obviously, this > > > breaks POLA, so it should be changed (with ample warning). > > > > As for ample warning: I've seen MAKEDEVs display a list of the devices > > they are creating. I think the Tru64 version does this. I myself think this > > is a good behaviour (and hope people won't start yelling 'bloat' for once) > > I'd like to hack about a bit on MAKEDEV, but I was wondering, does > sysinstall, in any way, use MAKEDEV? I *don't* want to mess with > sysinstall! :) I guess the only way to find out short of studying sysinstall source code is asking Jordan. -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands - The FreeBSD Project WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message