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Date:      Fri, 28 Jul 2000 15:42:38 +0200
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How much do we need the all-singing, all-dancing devfs?
Message-ID:  <20000728154238.D71137@ywing.creative.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <20000728150143.A5518@freebie.demon.nl>; from wkb@freebie.demon.nl on Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 03:01:43PM %2B0200
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On Fri, Jul 28, 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote:

[snip]

> > > > same fabric.
> > > 
> > > Yep.. and that is what you really want.
> > 
> > So why not just call make_dev with the wwnXXXXXX as the device name ?
> > (Assuming that the device nodes exist in /dev, I don't see this as being
> > a problem even now, and if you wanted to you could make a script to query
> > the FC controllers in your system and create devices in /dev/ (or /dev/dsk/,
> > /dev/fc/, whatever you wanted ..)
> 
> Other than that 64/128 bit WWNs are a royal pain in daily use this should
> work.

Well, figuring out what data should be used to construct a device name
is up to the driver, right? :-)


Adrian

-- 
Adrian Chadd			Now 17-year-olds can't play a _video game_
<adrian@FreeBSD.org>		because its called violent -
				and real violence is still called dinner.
					-- jamie@mccarthy.org


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