From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 14 16:28:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from alcanet.com.au (mail.alcanet.com.au [203.62.196.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BA7137B7AA for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 16:28:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au) Received: by border.alcanet.com.au id <115218>; Sat, 15 Apr 2000 09:29:00 +1000 Content-return: prohibited From: Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: Problems with MAKEDEV. In-reply-to: <20000414074858.B18551@virtual-voodoo.com>; from steve@virtual-voodoo.com on Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 10:49:40PM +1000 To: Steve Ames Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Message-Id: <00Apr15.092900est.115218@border.alcanet.com.au> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: <20000414114155.A61941@twilight.bastard.co.uk> <00Apr14.205835est.115320@border.alcanet.com.au> <20000414074858.B18551@virtual-voodoo.com> Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 09:28:55 +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2000-Apr-14 22:49:40 +1000, Steve Ames wrote: >That's always struck me a bit odd... I thought 'MAKEDEV std' made >the generic set of devices and that 'MAKEDEV all' should make... well.. >_ALL_. *shrug* What do you define as `all'? Say I have a big FTP server with 8 wide SCSI controllers, each with 15 disks - that's da0..da119. I might have a big shell (or similar) server that needs a few thousand PTYs. I could have all sorts of other wierd hardware. "MAKEDEV all" has to draw the line somewhere. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message