From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 29 17:19:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DD4337B400; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 17:19:20 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id BC32A6AC9D; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 11:48:48 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 11:48:48 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Steve Ames , John Baldwin , John Indra , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS newbie... Message-ID: <20010130114848.B48269@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010129100605.A30329@virtual-voodoo.com> <21846.980781024@critter> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <21846.980781024@critter>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 04:10:24PM +0100 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 29 January 2001 at 16:10:24 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20010129100605.A30329@virtual-voodoo.com>, Steve Ames writes: >> On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 10:19:34PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote: >>> >>> On 29-Jan-01 John Indra wrote: >>>> 2. If something change to the source tree's MAKEDEV, what should I do? >>> >>> Nothing. With DEVFS, each driver in the kernel creates its own >>> entries automatically, so MAKEDEV isn't used. >> >> Hrm... what about some custom entries or symlinks I may have? >> (/dev/cdrom for instance) > > You can create symlinks in /dev, you cannot mknod there. What is the reason for this? How does a program or script know whether the system is running DEVFS or not? Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message