From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 26 18:25:28 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19F1B16A41F; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 18:25:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from mv.twc.weather.com (mv.twc.weather.com [65.212.71.225]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97E0E43D48; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 18:25:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from [10.50.41.234] (Not Verified[10.50.41.234]) by mv.twc.weather.com with NetIQ MailMarshal (v6, 0, 3, 8) id ; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:42:12 -0400 From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:25:13 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <49402550510240728y555979c9i2fe4adc73137a1e7@mail.gmail.com> <49402550510251250g66a89037q9a1eb3bdbedf94c3@mail.gmail.com> <435FBA42.1070604@pacbell.net> In-Reply-To: <435FBA42.1070604@pacbell.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510261425.14759.jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: soc-victor@freebsd.org, Daniel Rudy Subject: Re: devinfo(3) problem... X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 18:25:28 -0000 On Wednesday 26 October 2005 01:17 pm, Daniel Rudy wrote: > At about the time of 10/25/2005 12:50 PM, victor cruceru stated the > > following: > > Hi Daniel, > > Yes, this is the fix. And yes, I think that the bug was reported (at > > least on a mailing list...) > > BTW: I dare to suggest to fully upgrade your system to the "latest" > > 6.0, it is a huge step forward from 5.4. Before doing this you may > > want to give it a try by booting from a CD and check that your hw is > > fully functional (and detected). > > For stability reasons, I don't run the absolute latest software. When > 6.x comes out, I'll wait awhile for the bugs to be worked out before I > migrate to it. As for hardware, I tend to run FreeBSD on older > hardware, so I don't think that there will be a problem with the > hardware being properly detected. FYI, I merged that fix back to RELENG_5 a while ago, so it will be fixed in 5.5 as well as 6.0. > > To check if it is your mistake or another bug in libdevinfo, you may > > want to run the associated tool (man -k devinfo). > > Hope this helps. > > Actually, the devinfo tool was working the whole time. I tried the > devinfo tool before I decided to use the libdevinfo.so library. I've > tested it with my code and it is working now with that one line of > additional code. Yes, devinfo(1) only traverses the tree once, so it didn't run into this bug. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org