Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:44:52 +0800 From: LI Xin <delphij@delphij.net> To: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, delphij@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall installUpgrade.c Message-ID: <466665F4.60709@delphij.net> In-Reply-To: <20070606074002.GE1834@submonkey.net> References: <200706061141.04765.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <71022.1181113051@critter.freebsd.dk> <20070606074002.GE1834@submonkey.net>
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Ceri Davies wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 06:57:31AM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> In message <200706061141.04765.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, "Daniel O'Conno=
r" writes
>> :
>>
>>> On Wednesday 06 June 2007 07:44, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>>>> : '$1~/\\dev\\/(aacd|ad|afd|amrd|ar|da|idad|ipsd|mfid|mlxd|twed)/ &&=
>>>> : \ $2~/\\/$/ {print substr($1, 1, index($1, \"s\") - 1)}'
>>>> : /etc/fstab`");
>>>> :
>>>> : where the regex is built from every device name in device_names
>>>> : (which even then doesn't cater for GEOM where devices might be
>>>> : called anything). This is something that would require a build
>>>> : tool, which is why I haven't done it yet.
>>>>
>>>> "mmcsd" is also a disk.
>>> Why not iterate over the output of sysctl -n kern.disks?
>> Wrong answer.
>>
>> Right answer: Why not read it from sysctl kern.geom.confxml
>=20
> That sounds like the right thing to do, but that sysctl returns nothing=
> on my RELENG_6 system; why would that be?
Hmmm... It seems that sysctl(8) needs to be extended to support output
of these.
Cheers,
--=20
Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net/
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