Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 21:37:49 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: per-device sysctls Message-ID: <3045.1077827869@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Feb 2004 12:59:04 MST." <20040226.125904.08946359.imp@bsdimp.com>
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In message <20040226.125904.08946359.imp@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes: >In message: <xzp8yipk4gh.fsf@dwp.des.no> > des@des.no (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) writes: >: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes: >: > Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?= writes: >: > > "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> writes: >: > > > That is a good reason to transitioning to this, so long as we can come >: > > > up with a good way to represent detached nodes. >: > > As long as they have a device_t, it should be a piece of cake. >: > Having a device_t is a property of having hardware, not of being a >: > device driver. >: >: I believe that by "detached nodes", Warner means hardware that does >: not have a driver. > >They have a device_t, however. All nodes in the tree have a device_t >(kind of by definition). Not all nodes in the tree have a devclass >associated with their device_t (eg, not all devices are attached). >this is why you'll see lots of 'unknown' nodes in the devinfo output. GEOM, NETGRAPH pty, tun, tap, nmdm and similar have no newbus infestation and there would have to really good reasons to infest them. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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