Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:39:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: pete@altadena.net Subject: Re: Devd event from GEOM? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1050125093919.75661H-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20050124.204644.32725683.imp@bsdimp.com>
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On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, M. Warner Losh wrote: > : Since they constitute different "things" with quite different management > : properties. This also provides additional contextual information: rather > : than devd having to guess what type of object a device node is using name > : matching, by learning about it through geom or the network stack, it knows > : what kind it is up front in a strong way. > > While I tend to agree, I do think that GEOM is the wrong layer to > announce things from. The more correct layer would be /dev, since you > are again assuming that a GEOM that's created with name foo is > accessible via /dev/foo. So suppose I'm listening to a devd socket to try and identify storage devices arriving that I can automount. How do I know which device announcements are for storage devices? Robert N M Watson
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