From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jul 28 6:34:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ywing.creative.net.au (ywing.creative.net.au [203.56.168.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91FF537C313 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 06:34:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adrian@ywing.creative.net.au) Received: (from adrian@localhost) by ywing.creative.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA76743 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 15:42:38 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from adrian) Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 15:42:38 +0200 From: Adrian Chadd 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> References: <20000727094015.B71137@ywing.creative.net.au> <20000728110827.A3470@freebie.demon.nl> <20000728123730.C71137@ywing.creative.net.au> <20000728150143.A5518@freebie.demon.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000728150143.A5518@freebie.demon.nl>; from wkb@freebie.demon.nl on Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 03:01:43PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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_ because its called violent - and real violence is still called dinner. -- jamie@mccarthy.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message