From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 5 12:50:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fang.cs.sunyit.edu (fang.cs.sunyit.edu [192.52.220.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61C7637B410 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:50:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (banksw@localhost) by fang.cs.sunyit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA23270; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 15:49:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from banksw@fang.cs.sunyit.edu) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 15:49:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Wyatt Banks To: Kris Kennaway Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: to MAKEDEV or not to MAKEDEV, that is my question In-Reply-To: <20010905120614.D76765@xor.obsecurity.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ********************************************** * Wyatt Banks * * banksw@cs.sunyit.edu * * SUNY Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome * * Utica, NY 13502 * ********************************************** On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 09:42:15AM -0400, Wyatt Banks wrote: > > Apparently on this mailing list there seems to be a lot of confusion about > > when to use makedev and what argument to pass it. Is there an official > > guide that shows me exactly when I add an X to my system, that I need to > > makedev Y and makedev Z? > > If that hardware uses devices, and when you try and access the > hardware the devices for it don't exist, you need to MAKEDEV them. > > That's really about as difficult as it gets. > > Kris so you obviously agree with me then. "If the hardware uses devices" is quite ambiguous. I agree with you 100%. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message