From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 23 11:36:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from w250.z064001178.sjc-ca.dsl.cnc.net (w250.z064001178.sjc-ca.dsl.cnc.net [64.1.178.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5BF5637B42B for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 11:36:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 920 invoked by uid 1000); 23 Sep 2001 18:36:54 -0000 Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 11:36:32 -0700 From: Jos Backus To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Suggestion: move rc.devfs invocation up in rc Message-ID: <20010923113632.B557@lizzy.bugworks.com> Reply-To: Jos Backus Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My rc.devfs has: ln -fs /dev/psm0 /dev/mouse My rc.conf has: moused_port="/dev/mouse" Unfortunately, this doesn't work because rc.syscons (which starts moused) is run before rc.devfs, i.e. before the symlink is created. Could rc.devfs not be moved up in rc so this does work? Why? I'd like to be able to refer to my logical mouse device as ``/dev/mouse'' (interface) and define the actual device (implementation) in one place only, for obvious reasons. Thanks, -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ Santa Clara, CA _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ josb@cncdsl.com _/_/ _/_/_/ use Std::Disclaimer; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message