Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 11:36:34 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@freebsd.org>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/ppp bundle.c id.c id.h Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909251135340.325-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpyadvxqk8.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 25 Sep 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org> writes: > > Log: > > Do a kldload() if we get ENXIO trying to open /dev/tun0 > > Hmm, we should have a mechanism for querying the kernel about the > presence or absence of a specific driver. Maybe a sysctl hierarchy > that lists installed drivers and attached devices (and maybe even > detected but unattached devices). (BTW, that would allow us to > implement something like Windows' device manager, which is actually > quite a cool concept) There is some experimental code in subr_bus.c which constructs sysctl nodes for each device. I never had the time to take this further though. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.4.10.9909251135340.325-100000>